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- [johnz]
- /dʒoʊnz/
- /dʒəʊnz/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [johnz]
- /dʒoʊnz/
Definitions of jones word
- noun jones Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas. 1
- noun jones Casey [key-see] /ˈkeɪ si/ (Show IPA), (John Luther Jones) 1864–1900, U.S. locomotive engineer: folk hero of ballads, stories, and plays. 1
- noun jones Chuck (Charles Martin Jones) 1912–2002, U.S. film animator. 1
- noun jones Daniel, 1881–1967, English phonetician. 1
- noun jones Ernest, 1879–1958, Welsh psychoanalyst. 1
- noun jones (Everett) LeRoi [luh-roi,, lee-roi] /ləˈrɔɪ,, ˈli rɔɪ/ (Show IPA) original name of Imamu Amiri Baraka. 1
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Origin of jones
First appearance:
before 1965 One of the 2% newest English words
1965-70; origin uncertain; perhaps from the family name Jones, or from “keeping up with the Joneses, ” or from Great Jones Alley in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, frequented by drug addicts
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Parts of speech for Jones
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
jones popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 66% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
jones usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for jones
noun jones
- bag — A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought.
- bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- dependence — Your dependence on something or someone is your need for them in order to succeed or be able to survive.
- enslavement — The action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
Antonyms for jones
noun jones
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
- distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
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