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say it: juh-MAY-kuhn
jamaican is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Jamaica". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants
“Jamaican rum”
“the Jamaican Prime Minister”
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 jamaican 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.