RASTAS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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(s)
   • Rastafari (what does Rastafari mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Rastas is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • youth subculture (what does youth subculture mean?)
   • religious movement (what does religious movement mean?)