Jamaican
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2.3
- proper noun
- /dʒəˈmeɪkən/
:
jamaicano
- All my friends, Latinos, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Jews, Catholics, Christians, whites, melting pot.
- white Jamaicans
- Jamaicans in Toronto
- Jamaicans of African descent
Examples
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I'm like Jamaican, Not even American Jamaican now.
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A daily soap that chronicled the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of rural Jamaicans moving to the urban centers in vast numbers.
Academic text (1992) -
So that was quite tough knowing that then I was chosen by a Jamaican man and a Welsh woman.
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You know, I'm part German, part Jamaican.
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So my, my Jamaican roots, I'm very proud of them.
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For Jamaicans, life is very hard, you know.
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Now, this is a story about three Irishmen and a Jamaican.
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The school has had decades of success helping young Jamaicans become talented and even world-renowned musicians.
Blog text (31) -
The three groups had similar distributions on gender: African Americans, 79% female; Jamaican Americans, 75% female; and Jamaicans, 80% female.
Academic text (2006) -
I have a Jamaican friend who introduced me to reggae music.
Compounds
A fast-growing tropical evergreen tree with small sweet red fruit that people eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jamaican comes from the island name Jamaica, from the Taíno word Xaymaca meaning 'land of wood and water'. The ending -an means 'from', as in American and Italian, so Jamaican is used as a name for someone 'from Jamaica' or of Jamaican background.