Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island country in the Caribbean Sea south of Cuba. Originally inhabited by Arawaks, it was visited by Columbus in 1494 and settled by the Spanish in 1509. The British captured the island in 1655, and it was formally ceded to Great Britain in 1670, becoming a crown colony in 1866. Jamaica became independent in 1962. Kingston is the capital and the largest city.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the West Indian islands.
- noun a variety of ginger, called also
white ginger , prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. - noun allspice.
- noun (Bot.) a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (
Blakea trinervis ), with showy pink flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City.
- proper noun Jamaica Plain, Boston, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
- proper noun A particular
country in theCaribbean . - proper noun The
island comprising most of that country. - proper noun Jamaica, Vermont, a town in Vermont.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism
- noun an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm sorry I missed the comment date on the jamaica/barbados articles, but the GDP increase of Jamaica was twice that of Barbados over the past year.
Tyler Hits a Home Run, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's jamaican music why its a big hype that kartel clarks and gyptian hold yuh is playing on hot 97 in NY, the hype should be that its playing on Jamaica radios, who cares who if any radio station in the worl play reggae music other than jamaica radios.
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Arts of Jamaica_; _The Jamaica Physical Journal_; _Jamaica Monthly
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Free Streaming Cricket TV with Live Online Feeds jamaica Cricket: Jamaica beats Barbados repley Cheapest place for Ashes Cricket 2009 (xbox 360) allaboutcricket @waldinho86 yo!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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A High Wind in Jamaica is not part of the sale, but Andrew Sean Greer thinks you must read it anyway, listen to the story on NPR here.
Catch-all for 8.4.09 2009
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“Abortion in Jamaica is still a federal crime except in some cases, (governed by an ambiguous “common law”), “(i) significant fetal abnormality; (ii) where pregnancy would represent a threat to the welfare or health of the mother and (iii) in cases where pregnancy is an outcome of rape or incest;” however, as of 2004, the third leading cause of maternal mortality in Jamaica was unsafe abortions.”
Global Voices in English » Jamaica: High Teen Pregnancy and Sexual Violence Rates 2009
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A High Wind in Jamaica is not part of the sale, but Andrew Sean Greer thinks you must read it anyway, listen to the story on NPR here.
Catch-all 2010
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A High Wind in Jamaica is not part of the sale, but Andrew Sean Greer thinks you must read it anyway, listen to the story on NPR here.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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If they do, there must have been a sigh of relief all round when Seb Coe, the former Olympic champion and chair of the London 2012 organising committee, peered at the recorded place of birth of his great-great-great-great-grandfather and read the word Jamaica.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The choice of steel drums would make sense if any part of the movie took place in Jamaica or a similarly tropical environment, but “Commando” takes place entirely in Los Angeles and a South American island.
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