n.
Pronunciation: m ə - ' rün
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from French maron, marron feral, fugitive, modification of American Spanish cimarrón wild, savage
Date: 1666
1 capitalized : a fugitive black slave of the West Indies and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries also : a descendant of such a slave
2 : a person who is marooned