Maroons is valid Scrabble Word

Is maroons a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for MAROONS in dictionary:

VERB:

MAROON, to abandon in an isolated place
leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island

NOUN:

a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons.

ADJECTIVE:

of a brownish-red colour

Words related to MAROONS

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How to use MAROONS in a sentence

Long, the Maroons were actually numbered in 1749, when they amounted to about six hundred and sixty in all, having only a hundred and fifty men fit to carry arms.
In addition there were at the last date some 10,000 negroes legally free, and 1400 maroons or escaped slaves dwelling permanently in the mountain fastnesses.
Russell advanced alone to treat with them, then several Maroons appeared, and finally Cudjoe himself.
During the following year a separate treaty was made with another large body of insurgents, called the Windward Maroons.
Among the wild mountains of Jamaica, the Maroons dwelt in a savage freedom.
But the new general had not served against the Maroons for nothing, and was not ashamed to go to school to his opponents.
The Maroons soon learned to keep out of the way of the shells, and the island relapsed into terror again.
It was judged best not to interfere with those bodies of Maroons which had kept aloof from the late outbreak, as the Accompong settlement, and others.
CUDJOE, THE NEGRO CHIEF, AND THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA.
Such were the Maroons, or mountain-dwelling fugitives of Jamaica, whose story is well worth telling.

Despairing of conquering the forest-born Maroons by the arts of civilized warfare, the British were driven to try a new method.
The Maroons were called upon to help the troops put down this revolt.
When it was over the black warriors were invited to Kingston, the capital, where the whites of that city had their first sight of the redoubtable Maroons.
He had nineteen picked Englishmen and thirty-one Maroons, who, being the offspring of Negro slaves and Indians, hated Spaniards like poison and knew the country to a foot.
Then six Maroons would lay their burdens down, and make a slaughter of them, bringing away as much of the dainty wild pork as they could carry.
Four Maroons went on ahead to mark a trail by breaking branches or flinging a bunch of leaves upon the ground.
Another troop of twelve Maroons brought up the rear.
As they took up a position in the woods, the Maroons charged them upon both flanks, while the English rushed their centre.
Even in the dry season the roads were bad, and the mule trains were never safe from the Maroons.
He refused to visit the Indian villages, though the Maroons begged him earnestly to do so.
Swaying, limping, utterly road-weary, they came tottering into a little village which the Maroons had built as a rest-house for them, about three leagues from the ship.
At sunset on the evening of Saturday, the 22nd of February, the weary crew arrived at the little town, to the great joy of the Maroons who kept watch and ward there.
He lived with a guard of soldiers, but the Maroons felt confident that by attacking from the shore side of the house they could easily break in upon him.
On hearing of this golden booty, Drake thought of all that the Maroons had told him.
As they sailed, the Maroons gave out that the frigate was too deep a ship to cross the Rio Francisco bar, which had little water on it at that season of the year.
Sir Archibald Campbell had heard, that the Maroons in Jamaica in the year 1739 amounted to three thousand men fit to carry arms.
The number of permanent maroons did not reach a thousand.
Drake put the captured negroes ashore to join the Maroons, with whom he always made friends.
Leaving behind about twenty-five men to guard the base, he began the overland march with a company of fifty, all told, of whom thirty-one were picked Maroons.
Then Carleill was to raid Panama, with the help of the Maroons, while Drake himself was to raid the coast of Honduras.
This Spaniard, hating all Maroons, ran his lance through the boy and cantered away.

Similar words containing MAROON without suffix s

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