Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of calypso and rhythm and blues, characterized by a strongly accentuated offbeat.
Wiktionary
- n. music A form of music originating in Jamaica and associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line, percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.
WordNet 3.0
- n. popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
Etymologies
- Jamaican English, ultimately from rege-rege, ragged clothing, probably from rag1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.”
“Stand-up comic and actor Bob Marley admits that sharing a name with a certain reggae superstar has had its ups and downs.”
“The dub reggae group, known for covering popular artists, including The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Radiohead, are joined by dance group”
“Cutting edge meets tradition in German reggae artist Gentleman”
“+ ordering three pizzas at 2: 30AM and listening to reggae from the TV”
“If you don’t know what I mean, you probably haven’t heard The Slackers, the excellent, soul-patched New York City scenesters who have been touring forever and who dabble equally in reggae, jazz, and soul.”
“Young’s evocation of reggae is not located in language or even a evoking of the discourse of reggae.”
“Its collage style, which mixes archival footage, news clips and interviews, subtly mirrors the surreal effect of the dub reggae on its soundtrack, tracing the experience of black immigrants in postwar England.”
The Wall Street Journal: Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies
“Empresarios touch on everything from dub reggae and modern Brazilian beats to cumbia and trippy downtempo rhythms.”
The Washington Post: Nightlife Agenda: Eden's new Green Room and Karaoke Championships
“Design regulars Paul Jefferies, Jon Willard, Matt Hope and Marcus Connolly warm up the main room, there's dub reggae from BCB Project in the outdoor glitterball garden and not forgetting DJ Chief playing R&B in the Lounge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reggae’.
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Even More 250 Spelling Words
Good for intermediate and advanced spellers and anybody who wants to use words with precision
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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MUSIC - jazz
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music genre
list of music genres - anything. even the most obscure sub-genres of sub-genres
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Musikgenres
indietronic, shoegaze, antifolk, freak-folk, dance punk, dubstep, indie, electro, house, minimalist, underground, drum'n'base and 74 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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We Have Both Kinds, Country and Western
a list of musical genres
chillwave, shoegazer, punk, emo, rap, hip-hop, trip-hop, be-bop, loungecore, nerdcore, grunge, grebo and 27 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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lychen1109's Words
disruptive techno..., web 2.0, wireshark, reggae, democracy player, internet television, project looking g..., pe ratio, consolidation, social shopping, wisdom of crowds, prediction market
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Fauxlyrical
Made up words from songs
pompitous, pizmotality, crabalocker, sussudio, delovely, bootylicious, karmacoma, diggity, groos, bagism, joob, ochrasy and 13 more...
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thebunches92's Words
zeitgeist, schadenfreude, colloquial, sepia, realpolitik, novella, multiplicative, nee, qat, leitmotif, abhor, seductress and 77 more...
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Jamaica
irie, duppy, saltfish, ackee, callaloo, boonoonoonoos, jonga, pissabed, iniquity, quackoo, ruinate, braata and 28 more...
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The Hills are Alive
...with the Sound of Music.
rock, dance, jazz, blues, folk, filk, jungle, industrial, rockabilly, classical, baroque, techno and 47 more...
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tsherel's Words
yardie, mandeville, manchester, bogle, masai, gist, wiki, linux, pilonidal, adenoid, nerd, loser and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for reggae.
goatboy Toot's Hibbert from Toots and the Maytals claims to have come up with the word.
"There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called 'streggae'. If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say 'Man, she's streggae' it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, 'OK man, let's do the reggay.' It was just something that came out of my mouth." Jan 29, 2008