Jonestown

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English[edit]

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Jonestown

Etymology[edit]

Jones +‎ town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple.

Proper noun[edit]

Jonestown

A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
(informal) The Jonestown massacre itself.
Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.

Derived terms[edit]

Jonestowner

Translations[edit]

a former settlement in Guyana; site of the 1978 mass murder / suicide

Latin: Jonesopolis
Lithuanian: Džonstaunas

the Jonestown massacre itself

See also[edit]

drink the Kool-Aid

Noun[edit]

Jonestown (plural Jonestowns)

Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.

Translations[edit]

a massacre, esp. with religious or cultic overtones

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