Jonestown

English

Etymology

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

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Jonestown

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

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Noun

Jonestown (plural Jonestowns)

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

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