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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
