Jonestown
English
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Etymology
[edit]From 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]Translations
[edit]a former settlement in Guyana; site of the 1978 mass murder / suicide
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the Jonestown massacre itself
See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]Jonestown (plural Jonestowns)
Translations
[edit]a massacre, esp. with religious or cultic overtones