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Jamaican

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See also:jamaican

English

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Etymology

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FromJamaica +‎-an.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Jamaican (pluralJamaicans)

  1. A person fromJamaica or of Jamaican descent.
  2. The Jamaican creole language.
  3. Jamaican English.

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Hypernyms

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Translations

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person of Jamaican descent
creole language
English

Adjective

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Jamaican (notcomparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.

Derived terms

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Translations

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of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language

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Jamaican Creole

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/,/d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/
  • Hyphenation:Ja‧mai‧can

Adjective

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Jamaican

  1. Jamaican
    A normalJamaican ting dat.
    That's a normalJamaican thing.
    • 2019, Zalika Reid-Benta,Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019 (in English),→ISBN:
      “[…] Yuh sure yuh aJamaican gyal?[…]”
      […] Girl, are you sure you'reJamaican? […]

Noun

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Jamaican (pluralJamaican dem,quantifiedJamaican)

  1. Jamaican
    Mi haffi tell unnu dat mi aJamaican.
    I must say (to you all) that I'm aJamaican.
    • 2005, Mervyn Morris,Making West Indian Literature (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN, page80:
      “[…] 'nutten eena di world nuh sweet like when fi miJamaican dem go fi spoke[…]”
      […] nothing in the world is better than whenJamaicans attempt to speak eloquently […]

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