Jones, Daniel Jones
(noun) English phonetician (1881-1967)
Jones, Inigo Jones
(noun) one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
Jones, John Paul Jones
(noun) American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
Jones, Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones
(noun) United States golfer (1902-1971)
Jones, Casey Jones, John Luther Jones
(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)
Jones, Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jones
(noun) United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Jones (plural Joneses)
An English and Welsh patronymic surname derived from the given name John.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Jones is the 5th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1,425,470 individuals. Jones is most common among White (55.2%) and Black/African American (38.5%) individuals.
• Jeons
jones (plural joneses)
(US, slang, now rare) Heroin.
(US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.
jones (third-person singular simple present joneses, present participle jonesing, simple past and past participle jonesed)
(US, slang) Have an intense craving.
• Jeons
Source: Wiktionary
24 March 2025
(adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; “staccato applause”; “a staccato command”; “staccato notes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
