Jamaican is an English word with synonyms like country or state. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Jamaican meaning
- A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
- The Jamaican creole language.
- Jamaican English.
Using Jamaican
- The main meaning on this page is: A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent. | The Jamaican creole language. | Jamaican English.
- Useful related words include: country, state, land, west indian.
- In the example corpus, jamaican often appears in combinations such as: the jamaican, of jamaican, and jamaican.
Context around Jamaican
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jamaican
- In this selection, "jamaican" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, include, popular, part, dollar, music and equity stand out and add context to how "jamaican" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include according to jamaican media reports and all three jamaican women advanced. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jamaican" sits close to words such as abolished, constellation and cried, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jamaican
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to reports, the Jamaican government rejected the request. (9 words)
I am a Jamaican and I stand in solidarity with the Jamaican linesmen. (13 words)
All three Jamaican women advanced to Thursday’s final of the women’s 400m hurdles. (15 words)
A 20-year-old Jamaican student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is to appear in court on Monday after he was charged for allegedly holding his ex-girlfriend captive and torturing her for three days. (38 words)
The three-hour showcase will trace the early beginnings of popular Jamaican music, prior to Jamaican independence from Britain in 1962, to the present, touching on mento, ska, nyabinghi, rocksteady, lovers rock, dub, reggae and dancehall. (36 words)
The generic title for Jamaican music recorded between 1961 and 1967, ska emerged from Jamaican R&B, which itself was largely based on American R&B and doo-wop. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Jamaican dollar denominated assets include Jamaican equity and fixed income securities and Jamaican dollar cash.
The three-hour showcase will trace the early beginnings of popular Jamaican music, prior to Jamaican independence from Britain in 1962, to the present, touching on mento, ska, nyabinghi, rocksteady, lovers rock, dub, reggae and dancehall.
As the Jamaican diaspora grows larger, the “brain drain” debate has escalated, even making its way to the Jamaican Parliament, as a pressing issue for the government.
Jamaican Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks announced that Jamaican nationals stuck in the U.S. will begin returning to the island this week.
He's part Jamaican, but it was like we were Jamaican carnival, and he's like Bobo, rewind, rewind.
I am a Jamaican and I stand in solidarity with the Jamaican linesmen.
Not that any Jamaican needs reasons to show off their national pride, but here’s why those living in the diaspora should travel in the Jamaican colors.
He was named Honorary President of the Jamaican Press Association; he worked throughout his professional career to promote the Jamaican sugar industry.
In recent years, Jamaican (and non-Jamaican) reggae musicians have used more positive themes in reggae music.
Jamaican sloop Jamaican sloops were slightly different from Bermuda sloops, the most obvious difference being that these ships were built on the shores of Jamaica.
The generic title for Jamaican music recorded between 1961 and 1967, ska emerged from Jamaican R&B, which itself was largely based on American R&B and doo-wop.
The Jamaican ghetto themes in the lyrics were replaced with UK inner city themes, and Jamaican patois became intermingled with Cockney slang.
A 20-year-old Jamaican student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is to appear in court on Monday after he was charged for allegedly holding his ex-girlfriend captive and torturing her for three days.
According to Jamaican media reports, the operations, spearheaded by Minto, evolved into a robust collaboration between the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Jamaica Defence Force.
According to reports, the Jamaican government rejected the request.
After being in a cell with Chet, he was moved in with a man of Jamaican origin called Gary.
All three Jamaican women advanced to Thursday’s final of the women’s 400m hurdles.
Alvin Russell and Dalton Anderson tried smuggling £2million worth of cannabis into the country by packing it into cans of Ackee fruit and Jamaican green vegetable Callaloo.
As Christmas day approaches, Ottar is prepared to provide rich Jamaican fruit cakes for her family, a concoction of blended fruits soaked in wine and rum.
At least one Jamaican man who tried to enter the US illegally was found dead on a street in Mexico.
Common combinations with jamaican
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the jamaican 41×
- of jamaican 17×
- and jamaican 16×
- to jamaican 8×
- jamaican and 8×
- jamaican music 6×
- jamaican government 6×
- jamaican women 5×
- jamaican father 5×
- jamaican dollar 4×