jones Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
   Mary Harris Jones; Mother Jones.
   
2. 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)
   John Luther Jones; Casey Jones.
   
3. noun United States golfer (1902-1971)
   Bobby Jones; Robert Tyre Jones.
   
4. noun American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
   John Paul Jones.
   
5. noun one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
   Inigo Jones.
   
6. noun English phonetician (1881-1967)
   Daniel Jones.
   

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