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Jonestown en · NOUN
Etymology
From Jones + town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple.
Meanings
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Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.
Forms
wikipedia: Jim Jones
Jonestown en · PROPN
Etymology
From Jones + town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple.
Meanings
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A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
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(informal) The Jonestown massacre itself.
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Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.
Deriveds
Jonestowner
Relateds
drink the Kool-Aid
Translations (2)
lt Džonstaunas (a former settlement in Guyana; site of the 1978 mass murder / suicide) · la Jonesopolis (a former settlement in Guyana; site of the 1978 mass murder / suicide)
wikipedia: Jim Jones