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Rastafarian
rastafarian
(Rastafarians) 1. A Rastafarian is a member of a Jamaican religious group which considers Haile Selassie, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, to be God. Rastafarians often have long hair which they wear in a hairstyle called dreadlocks. He was one of the few thousand committed Rastafarians in South Africa. N-COUNT 2. Rastafarian is used to describe Rastafarians and their beliefs and lifestyle. ...Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah... ADJ: ADJ n
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1.
noun Etymology: Ras Tafari, precoronation name of Haile Selassie Date: 1955 an adherent of ~ism • ~ adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. & adj. --n. a member of a sect of Jamaican origin regarding Blacks as a chosen people and the former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975, entitled Ras Tafari) as God. --adj. of or relating to this sect. Derivatives Rastafarianism n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n someone who believes in a religion that is popular in Jamaica, which has Haile Selassie as its religious leader, and has the belief that black West Indians will return to Africa - Rastafarian adj - Rastafarianism n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
4.
- 1955, from Rastafari, Jamaican religion built around writings of Marcus Garvey and belief that Haile Selassie (1892-1975), former emperor of Ethiopia, was God. From Ras Tafari, Selassie's title from 1916 to his accession in 1936, from Amharic ras "chief, head" (from Ar. ra's) + tafari "to be feared." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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