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Definition of Jones
1. Noun. United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).
2. Noun. United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900).
Generic synonyms: Engine Driver, Engineer, Locomotive Engineer, Railroad Engineer
3. Noun. United States golfer (1902-1971).
4. Noun. American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792).
5. Noun. One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652).
6. Noun. English phonetician (1881-1967).
Definition of Jones
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English and Welsh patronymic from=given names dot=) derived from the given name John. ¹
2. Noun. (US slang now rare) Heroin. ¹
3. Noun. (US slang) An addiction or intense craving. ¹
4. Verb. (US slang) Have an intense craving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jones
1. to have a strong craving for something [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jones
Literary usage of Jones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Am M 82:87 N '16 jones, JW After the shop has been closed for the summer. ...
Collier's 58:17 N 4 '16 jones, Mary Ethel Chemistry course for sirls. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Philos R 25:778-87 N jones, Anna S. Latin in the grades again. Class 3 13:436-41
Mr 48 jones, Carl E. Genealogical study of population, bibliog Am Stalls ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"jones, CO Action of Ca salts, 2671. jones, DB Action of finely divided Ag ...
jones, OH Tinplate Ind. Its Relations with the Iron and Steel Ind. (book), 49. ..."
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