Synonyms for jamaica
dʒəˈmeɪ kəja·maica

Princeton's WordNet

1. Jamaicanoun

   a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism

2. Jamaicanoun

   an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti

Matched Categories

1. • Greater Antilles
   • Jamaica
   • Country
   • Island

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1. List of paraphrases for "jamaica":

   jamaican, jamaique

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How to use jamaica in a sentence?

1. Limbaugh Show producer James Golden:

   Here you have a woman who’s an immigrant from Jamaica, proudly is an African-American woman who immigrated to this country, served in the US Marines and credits [ them ] with being a guiding light for her in helping her develop her leadership skills, her dad immigrated to this country with $ 1.75 in his pocket and became successful through hard work – The Democrat response to that … was to call this proud Black African-American immigrant from Jamaica a ‘ White supremacist ’ so that it could fit their narrative of what was taking place in Chantilly Virginia.

2. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   There are serious risks to living in paradise. Such are the ways in jamaica. It would be difficult for the media and its conspirators to come forth now and tell the truth about my trench town reggae creation, after having perpetrated lies on our history for so long. However, an attempt was made by the late- michael manley as prime minister to do so.

3. Brooke Burke:

   In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of the things that we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On: Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

4. Marcia Bartlett:

   I was cheering, i think that it( transitioning to a republic) is going to come up in a referendum at some point in Jamaica. There are still people with the mindset that it's good to be led by the Brits. But as far as I'm concerned, Jamaica needs to sink or swim on its own.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   jamerican- the word applies mostly to those from jamaica who has become domiciled in america, and have taken on the american influence whether they are permanent residents or citizens. It also applies to americans who have taken on jamaican domicile and citizenship. Those in canada are called-ja'cans- the cans meaning canada.