RASTAFARI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rastafari mean? 

• RASTAFARI (noun)
  The noun RASTAFARI has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: RASTAFARI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASTAFARI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Rastafari; Rastas

Hypernyms ("Rastafari" is a kind of...):

cult (followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices)

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "Rastafari"):

Rasta; Rastafarian (follower of Rastafarianism)

Domain category:

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