Main Entry:

¹ma·roon

Pronunciation:

\mə-ˈrün\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

probably from French maron, marron feral, fugitive, modification of American Spanish cimarrón wild, savage

Date:

1666

1capitalized : a fugitive black slave of the West Indies and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries ; also : a descendant of such a slave2: a person who is marooned