Rastafari

Definition: Rastafari

Rastafari

Noun

1. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; Rastafarians regard Ras Tafari as divine; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music.

Synonym: Rastafari

Synonym: Rastas (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Rastafari

Domain	Title
Books	Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader (reference) Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari (reference) Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana (reference) The Rastafari Ible (reference) The Third Testament the Ilect Verses of Jah Rastafari (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Grounation: The Indomitable Spirit of Rastafari (reference) Rastafari Teach I Everything (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rastafari

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	South Africa	In 2000 a candidate attorney asked the Constitutional Court to rule that adult Rastafari should be exempted from the application of statutory provisions that make the possession and use of cannabis illegal and subject to a fine or imprisonment, because the use of cannabis is considered to be part of the practice of Rastafarianism. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Rastafari

"Rastafari" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rastafari" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rastafari

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
rastafari	410	photo rastafari	4
rastafari speaks	33	history rastafari	4
jah rastafari	26	rastafari culture	4
rastafari religion	13	rastafari symbol	4
rastafari picture	11	rastafari times	3
africa canada college jamaica rasta rastafari toronto usa vniverswity	9	rastafari lion	3
cultura rastafari	8	haile rastafari selassie	3
index rastafari	7	rastafari art	3
boards rastafari	5	rastafari flag	2
bob marley rastafari	5	dictionary rastafari	2
		rastafari t shirt	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Rastafari

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-f-i-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: ratafias.
	-2 letters: ratafia.
	-3 letters: afrits, arista, friars, riatas, safari, satara, tafias, tarsia, tiaras.
	-4 letters: afars, afrit, airts, arias, arras, arris, astir, atria, fairs, fiars, fiats, first, frats, friar, frits, rafts, raias, riata, rifts, sirra, sitar, stair, stria, tafia, tarsi, tiara.
	-5 letters: afar, airs, airt, aits, arfs, aria, arts, fair, fast, fats, fiar, fiat, firs, fist.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-f-i-r-r-s-t"
	+4 letters: antiaircrafts.
	+5 letters: fibrosarcomata.
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