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Definition: Rastas |
RastasNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: RastasSynonym: Rastafari (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rastas |
| Non-English Usage: "Rastas" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (fieldfare, thrush). |
| "Rastas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Rastas" is used about 9 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) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (plural) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
rastas | 31 |
como hacer rastas | 7 |
de fotos rastas | 4 |
fotos rastas | 3 |
dreadlock rastas | 2 |
picture rastas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rastas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | astasray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: stars, trass, tsars. | |
-2 letters: arts, rats, star, tars, tass, tsar. | |
-3 letters: aas, ars, art, ass, ras, rat, sat, tar, tas. | |
-4 letters: aa, ar, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aristas, astrals, matrass, sataras, satraps, stratas, tarsals, tarsias. | |
+2 letters: aerosats, alastors, artisans, ashtrays, asterias, atresias, australs, bastards, brassart, dastards, daystars, gastreas, mattrass, sastruga, smartass, stramash, tsarinas. | |
+3 letters: abstracts, aerostats, alarmists, albatross, apartness, apiarists, aquarists, arbalests, arbalists, archaists, arethusas, arsenates, asperates, aspirants, aspirates, assaulter, astragals, australes, aviarists, bartisans, brassarts, cabrestas, cadasters, cadastres, caritases, castrates, castratos, catharses, catharsis, eastwards, gastraeas, gastrulas, intarsias, katharses, katharsis, loadstars, matrasses, megastars, palestras, parasites, partisans, pastorals, pastramis, radwastes, ratsbanes, sacristan, salariats, saleratus, sarcastic, satrapies, saturants, saturates, seacrafts, seastrand, seatrains, seawaters, separates, serenatas, staggards, staggarts, staircase, stairways, stalwarts, standards, stargazes, stearates, stravages, stravaigs, substrata, swarajist, tamarisks, teargases, transacts, tsarevnas, tsaritzas, wistarias. | |
+4 letters: absorbants, abstainers, adsorbates, aerialists, airstreams, alabasters, anarchists, arhatships, arrestants, artemisias, ascertains, ascorbates, aspartames, aspartates, aspidistra, aspirators, assaulters, asseverate, astrakhans, astrolabes, astronauts, backstairs, bastardies, bastardise, breakfasts, broadcasts, castrators, coastwards, contrabass, dramatises, dramatists, earthstars, escalators, farmsteads, gravitases, harassment, hardstands, heartsease, jackstraws, karateists, marcasites, mattrasses, metatarsus, palaestras, parasitise, parasitism, pastorales, pastorates, pasturages, paymasters, racialists, roadsteads, sacraments, sacristans, sacrosanct, salivators, saltshaker, samaritans, samarskite, sanitaries, saturators, satyriases, satyriasis, seastrands, sectarians, separatism, separatist, separators, smartasses, solfataras, staircases, stannaries, starboards, stargazers, statuaries, stavesacre, stramashes, straphangs, strappados, stratagems, sugarcoats, swarajists, tarantases, tarantisms, taskmaster, teargassed, teargasses, tearstains, transaxles, translates, transshape, traversals. | |
+5 letters: abstracters, abstractest, abstractors, aerostatics, aftershaves, aftertastes, albatrosses, algebraists, altostratus, amateurisms, anastrophes, antiphrases, antiphrasis, antiracisms, antiracists, apartnesses, apatosaurus, apparatuses, aristocrats, artisanship, aspidistras, aspirations, asseverated, asseverates, assimilator, assortative, autostradas, balustrades, bandmasters, bastardised, bastardises, bastardizes, castigators, castrations, catachreses, catachresis, coastguards, crankshafts, crustaceans, devastators, dextranases, diatessaron, dysarthrias, exasperates, fantasizers, fascinators, fastballers, fatshederas, gastrulates, gradualists, grandstands, hairstreaks, harassments, headmasters, headstreams, heartseases, loadmasters, magistrates, mainstreams, marquessate, marquisates, masticators, masturbates, metaphrases, metatarsals, nasogastric, naturalises, naturalisms, naturalists, naturalness, parasitised, parasitises, parasitisms, parasitizes, parasitoids, parasitoses, parasitosis, paresthesia, pasteboards, pastoralism, pastoralist, peasantries, pharmacists, plagiarists, pragmatisms, pragmatists, rascalities, reescalates, restaurants, sailboaters, saleratuses, saltarellos, saltcellars, saltshakers, samarskites, sanatoriums, sanctuaries, sandblaster, sanitarians, sanitariums, sarcomatous, saturations, saturnalias, satyagrahas, sauerkrauts, scarlatinas, separations, separatisms, separatists, shearwaters, skateboards, smaragdites, spacecrafts, stagecrafts, standardise, stargazings, starvations, statecrafts, stavesacres, strappadoes, substandard, superstrata, surfactants, taskmasters, tastemakers, tattersalls, teargassing, thysanurans, toastmaster, transactors, transferals, transferase, translators, transplants, transsexual, transshaped, transshapes, transudates, transvalues, transversal, traumatises, traumatisms, ultrabasics, unsaturates, warrantless, washaterias, washeterias, wastepapers, wastewaters, waterscapes, yardmasters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 73 74 61 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- ... - .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a s t a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0073 0074 0061 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526785866785 |
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