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cimarron

cimarron is the alternative letter-case form of Cimarron.

Noun capitalized: Cimarron

Cimarron (plural Cimarrons)

  1. A Maroon (an African who escaped slavery in the Americas, or a descendant thereof), especially a member of the Cimarron people of Panama.
    • When he retired from piracy, Uncle Patrice settled down with a woman of mixed Taino and Cimarron ancestry to the less adventurous activity of tobacco ...2013, David Franklyn, Belvedere, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 6
    • We do know that the Spanish were forced to broker peace with the three main palenques of Cimarrons in Panama several years later.2013, Maha Marouan, Merinda Simmons, Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 122

Proper noun capitalized: Cimarron

Cimarron

  1. An unincorporated community in Kings County, California, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
  3. A city, the county seat of Gray County, Kansas, United States.
  4. A village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.
  6. A river that flows from northeastern New Mexico, into the Arkansas River in northeastern Oklahoma.

Forms of cimarron

pluralcimarrons
pluralCimarrons
alternative formcimarron

Origin of cimarron

From Spanish cimarrón (“feral; maroon”).

Words formed from cimarron

Questions about cimarron

What does cimarron mean?
Cimarron means a Maroon (an African who escaped slavery in the Americas, or a descendant thereof), especially a member of the Cimarron people of Panama.
What is cimarron the alternative letter-case form of?
Cimarron is the alternative letter-case form of Cimarron.
What part of speech is cimarron?
Cimarron can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cimarron?
The plural of cimarron is cimarrons.

Words near cimarron in the dictionary

  1. cima
  2. Cimahi
  3. Cimambwe
  4. cimar
  5. cimarin
  6. cimarron
  7. Cimarron County
  8. cimarrons
  9. cimars
  10. Cimas
  11. cimaterol

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