Definitions for Jones
dʒoʊnz; ˈɪn ɪˌgoʊJones

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. Jones, Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones(noun)

   United States golfer (1902-1971)

4. Jones, John Paul Jones(noun)

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

5. Jones, Inigo Jones(noun)

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

6. Jones, Daniel Jones(noun)

   English phonetician (1881-1967)

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1. Jones(ProperNoun)

   derived from the given name John.

2. jones(Noun)

   Heroin.

3. jones(Noun)

   An addiction or intense craving.

   I've got a basketball jones!

4. jones(Verb)

   Have an intense craving.

   I'm jonesing for some basketball.

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. jones(noun)

   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.

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

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Aaron Sagers of Blastr.com:

   ' Marvel's Daredevil' was a large step forward with its street-level storytelling, gritty violence, and heretofore unseen brutality( in the Marvel universe), but' Jessica Jones' raises the bar even higher and will be regarded as the best thing Marvel has done.

2. Donald Trump:

   Well if you look at the different situations, of course you could name many of them, I could get you a list and I'll have it sent to your office in two seconds. But there certainly were a lot of abuse of women, you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones, or any of them, and that certainly will be fair game, certainly, if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game.

3. Mark Ball:

   I was assaulted in another type of way by the police officers who were standing there looking at me like I did something wrong. Kennan Jones spent a night in the hospital for injuries related to the attack. Those responsible have not been caught – but authorities say they are actively looking for the culprits. It's awful. We want to catch the ones who did this.

4. Nouman Raja:

   Corey Jones never fired his weapon ... it's very troubling on many, many levels.

5. Erika Eleniak:

   We shot for three months in Mobile, Alabama, and it was a tough shoot. There were about four or five on the entire crew of 1,800 men. It was definitely interesting. I learned a lot on that shoot watching Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey work … It was a hard shoot, I have to say. Long hours … But it was an incredible learning experience for me.

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