JAMAICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamaica mean? 

• JAMAICA (noun)
  The noun JAMAICA has 2 senses:

1. a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism

2. an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti

  Familiarity information: JAMAICA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMAICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Jamaica"):

capital of Jamaica; Jamaican capital; Kingston (capital and largest city of Jamaica)

Montego Bay (port and resort city in northwestern Jamaica)

Domain member category:

Rastafari; Rastas ((Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music)

Holonyms ("Jamaica" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Jamaica (an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti)

Holonyms ("Jamaica" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Jamaican (of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Jamaica"):

Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)

Meronyms (members of "Jamaica"):

Jamaican (a native or inhabitant of Jamaica)

Holonyms ("Jamaica" is a part of...):

Greater Antilles (a group of islands in the western West Indies)

Derivation:

Jamaican (of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

The scale is used by the general population of USA and Jamaica for non-scientific temperature measurement.

(Fahrenheit Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Jamaica, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Jamaican, NCI Thesaurus)

His name is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies; from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, I think.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at 197, Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An island group in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Jamaica.

(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Presently the words Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, indicated the West Indies as his residence; and it was with no little surprise I gathered, ere long, that he had there first seen and become acquainted with Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When your uncle received your letter intimating the contemplated union between yourself and Mr. Rochester, Mr. Mason, who was staying at Madeira to recruit his health, on his way back to Jamaica, happened to be with him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:—'I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October A.D. — (a date of fifteen years back), Edward Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield Hall, in the county of —, and of Ferndean Manor, in —shire, England, was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at — church, Spanish Town, Jamaica. The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that church—a copy of it is now in my possession. Signed, Richard Mason.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)