maroon

Adjective

• of dark brownish to purplish red

Noun

• an exploding firework used as a warning signal

• a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color

• a person who is stranded (as on an island)
  • when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
    

Verb

• leave stranded on a desert island without resources
  • The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
    

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
  • the travellers were marooned
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  brownish-red , strand