The word Maroon can have the following meanings:

• Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple.
• A Maroon was a runaway slave in the Caribbean.
• Marooning is the act of leaving someone on a desert island.
• A maroon is a loud type of rocket.
• The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team, in existence from 1924 to 1938.
• The Chicago Maroon is the independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago, in publication since 1892.