Hyphenation of maroon

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word maroon? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

ma-roon

Definitions of maroon:

1.	A person who is stranded (as on an island) When the tide came in I was a maroon out there
2.	A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
3.	An exploding firework used as a warning signal
4.	Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue The travellers were marooned
5.	Leave stranded on a desert island without resources The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
6.	Of dark brownish to purplish red

Synonyms of maroon:

adj	brownish-red, chromatic
noun	unfortunate, unfortunate person
noun	purplish red
noun	firework, pyrotechnic
verb	strand, abandon, forsake, desolate, desert
verb	isolate, insulate

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.