Rastafari

[ ras-tuh-fair-ee, -fahr-ee, -fair-ahy, rah-stuh-; in Jamaica often rah-stah-fah-rahy ]

noun

1. Rastafarian ( def 1 ).
2. Rastafarianism.

adjective

1. Rastafarian ( def 2 ).

Example Sentences

The Rastafari faith is rooted in the Caribbean island in the 1930s.

From Seattle Times

Forget what you think you know about the Rastafari faith.

From Los Angeles Times

Now a poet living in the United States, Sinclair was once taught to reject all of “Babylon,” the vestiges of empire that Rastafari like her father believed kept Jamaica from its rightful glory.

From Los Angeles Times

Safiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet.

From Los Angeles Times

She rebooted the project by interviewing her father, striving to understand his interest in Rastafari, working to untangle his personal motivations and how she came to inherit so much of his sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times