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say it: juh-MAY-kuh
jamaica is a noun meaning "a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism". It is pronounced /dʒəˈmeɪkə/ — juh-MAY-kuh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism
an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jamaica come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.