Difference between Maroon and Brown

What is the difference between Maroon and Brown?

Maroon as an adjective is associated with maroon culture, communities or peoples. while Brown as an adjective is having a brown colour.

Maroon

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples. Of a maroon color

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. A castaway; a person who has been marooned. (colour) A dark red, somewhat brownish, colour. A rocket fired to summon the crew of a lifeboat.

Brown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a brown colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become brown.To cook something until it becomes brown.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A red-orange colour, including the colour of chocolate or coffee.One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 4 points.

Example sentence: The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

We hope you now know whether to use Maroon or Brown in your sentence.

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