Definitions for Jones
dʒoʊnz; ˈɪn ɪˌgoʊjones

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Jones, Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jonesnoun

   United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)

2. Jones, Casey Jones, John Luther Jonesnoun

   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)

3. Jones, Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jonesnoun

   United States golfer (1902-1971)

4. Jones, John Paul Jonesnoun

   American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)

5. Jones, Inigo Jonesnoun

   one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)

6. Jones, Daniel Jonesnoun

   English phonetician (1881-1967)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Jonesnoun

   derived from the given name John.

2. jonesnoun

   Heroin.

3. jonesnoun

   An addiction or intense craving.

   I've got a basketball jones!

4. jonesverb

   Have an intense craving.

   I'm jonesing for some basketball.

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1. jones

   "Jones" typically refers to a common surname of English or Welsh origin. It is derived from the given name "John" and means "John's son." However, in some contexts, it can also be used as a slang term indicating a strong desire, craving, or addiction. The particular meaning would depend on the context in which it is being used.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. jonesnoun

   A craving for something. It is said to come from Jones Alley in Manhattan where junkies used to live. E.g.: "Baseball Jones": needing baseball, "love Jones": a dire craving for someone, "Jonesing for some MJ": wanting some marijuana. I got a love Jones for your body and skin tone" -- Method Man & Mary J. Blige (You're all I need).

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1. jones

   Song lyrics by jones -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by jones on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. JONES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jones is ranked #5 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Jones surname appeared 1,425,470 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 483 would have the surname Jones.
   
   55.1% or 786,717 total occurrences were White.
   38.4% or 548,521 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 37,205 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.2% or 32,643 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 14,255 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 6,272 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Architect
   • Engineer
   • Golfer
   • Labor Leader
   • Naval Commander
   • Phonetician

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Jones' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2174

How to pronounce Jones?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Jones in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Jones in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Jones in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Jones in a Sentence

1. Jan Stone:

   Our children need consistency. And part of that consistency is coming to school and having the same schedule, although a substitute in the classroom may be a little inconsistent -- because you could have me, you could have Mrs. Smith tomorrow, you could have Mrs. Jones the next day -- they're still in their regular classroom.

2. Patrick Keon:

   Equity indices bounced last week, with the S&P 500 up 1.3 percent, Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.2 percent, high yield fund returns are the most closely correlated with equities out of taxable bonds, so there might be a relationship there.

3. Kurt Busch:

   We kind of lost control that pit stop where we came in the leader and came out third, i thought if we could keep in touch with (Jones and Larson), keep close to them, we might be able to out-pit road them at the end of the race. We got by one of them, but not the other one. But overall, good day.

4. Lawrence Walters:

   The warrant was extremely broad, we would hope that this is a targeted investigation to search for what they claim they were searching for. ... If their true intent is to investigate all of her personal communications and investigate Rebekah Jones sources, that would demonstrate this is abusive and retaliatory.

5. Kasey Kahne:

   Jones was really fast, he was kind of in a league of his own when he could get to clean air. I knew if we could stay back and stay with him (on the final restart), as long as he didn't get to clean air, it would be all right.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Jones
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jones
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html