Jamaican
See also: jamaican
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Jamaican (plural Jamaicans)
- A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
- The Jamaican creole language.
- Jamaican English.
Synonyms edit
- (creole language): Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Patois, Patois, patois, Patwa
Hypernyms edit
- (person of Jamaican descent): person
- (creole language): creole, creole language (Creole language)
- (English): English
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
person of Jamaican descent
creole language
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English
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Adjective edit
Jamaican (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.
Derived terms edit
- Jamaicanize
- Jamaicanness
- Jamaican apple
- Jamaican blind snake
- Jamaican dollar
- Jamaican patty
- Jamaican time
- Jamaican vomiting sickness
- Jamaican spindalis (Spindalis nigricephala)
Translations edit
of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language
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Further reading edit
Jamaican Creole edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
Jamaican
- Jamaican
- A normal Jamaican ting dat.
- That's a normal Jamaican thing.
- 2019, Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019 (in English), →ISBN:
- “ […] Yuh sure yuh a Jamaican gyal? […] ”
- […] Girl, are you sure you're Jamaican? […]
Noun edit
Jamaican (plural Jamaican dem, quantified Jamaican)
- Jamaican
- Mi haffi tell unnu dat mi a Jamaican.
- I must say (to you all) that I'm a Jamaican.
- 2005, Mervyn Morris, Making West Indian Literature, →ISBN, page 80:
- “ […] 'nutten eena di world nuh sweet like when fi mi Jamaican dem go fi spoke […] ”
- […] nothing in the world is better than when Jamaicans attempt to speak eloquently […]
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 311