Noun: maroon
| Singular | maroon |
| Plural | maroons |
Sample Sentences
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Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan. [1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 193:]
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Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved. [2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14:]
Nouns inflected like maroon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. See: French Nouns '
marron', Spanish Nouns '
cimarrón'.