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Jones¹

  • /d͡ʒəʊnz/ UK
  • /d͡ʒoʊnz/ US

Sounds like jones · Rhymes with -əʊnz

Where it comes from

Genitive of John.

proper noun Joneses · Jonesses

  1. countable, uncountable An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John. It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.
  2. countable, uncountable A locality in Kenora District, north-west Ontario, Canada.
  3. countable, uncountable A municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines.
  4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois.
  6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
  7. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Cass County, Michigan.
  8. countable, uncountable A town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
  10. countable, uncountable Two townships, in Elk County, Pennsylvania and Beltrami County, Minnesota, listed under Jones Township.
  11. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Jones County

Jones²

  • /d͡ʒəʊnz/ UK
  • /d͡ʒoʊnz/ US

Sounds like jones · Rhymes with -əʊnz

Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

proper noun

  1. plural plural of Jone

jones³

  • /d͡ʒoʊnz/ US

Sounds like Jones (US) · Rhymes with -oʊnz

Where it comes from

Ed Boland, in an article in March 2002 of the The New York Times, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer. Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of addiction, originated among heroin addicts.

noun joneses

  1. US, archaic, slang Heroin. You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
  2. US, slang An addiction or intense craving. I’ve got a basketball jones!

verb joneses · jonesing · jonesed

  1. US, slang, transitive, usually, followed by for To have an intense craving for something. I’m jonesing for some basketball.
  2. US, intransitive, slang To binge on cocaine or alcohol.

jones⁴

  • /d͡ʒoʊnz/ US

Sounds like Jones (US) · Rhymes with -oʊnz

Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of jone

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: johns, watson, lloyd, llewellyn, bryn, lennard, duncan, finlay, irwin, robert, chadwick, kilbride, joly, creech, tremblay, bankhead

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name transliterations of the English name "Jones"

中文瓊斯 /琼斯 Qióngsī
ΕλληνικάΤζόουνς Tzóouns
РусскийДжонс Džons

noun intense craving

DeutschSucht, Verlangen

verb Have an intense craving

Deutschgieren, lechzen
Русскийжажда́ть žaždátʹ, жела́ть želátʹ

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@misc{jones_2026,
  title = {jones},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jones},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}