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rastafarian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rastafarian has 2 senses
- rastafarian(n = noun.person) rasta - follower of Rastafarianism; Array is a member of rastafari, rastas
- rastafarian(n = noun.group) Array - (Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine; Array is a kind of cult
is a kind of adherent, disciple
Adjective rastafarian has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rastafarian, n. & adj.
--n. a member of a sect of Jamaican origin regarding Blacks as a chosen people and the former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975, entitled Ras Tafari) as God.
--adj. of or relating to this sect.
--n. a member of a sect of Jamaican origin regarding Blacks as a chosen people and the former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975, entitled Ras Tafari) as God.
--adj. of or relating to this sect.
Derivative
Rastafarianism n.
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