a member of a religious and political movement among black W Indians that takes the former Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, to be God, and looks for the redemption of the black race and the establishment of a homeland in Ethiopia
Rastafarian adj
Rastafarianism noun
[from Ras Tafari, literally ‘Prince Tafari’, the name of Haile Selassie d.1974, Emperor of Ethiopia, before his coronation]