rastafari

Questions about rastafari

What does rastafari mean?

rastafari means "(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".

How many syllables are in rastafari?

rastafari has 4 syllables and divides as ra-sta-fa-ri under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for rastafari?

Close synonyms include Rastas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rastafari a common word?

rastafari is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.