jones | (n) United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930), Syn. Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones |
jones | (n) 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), Syn. John Luther Jones, Casey Jones |
jones | (n) United States golfer (1902-1971), Syn. Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones |
jones | (n) American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792), Syn. John Paul Jones |
jones | (n) one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652), Syn. Inigo Jones |
jones | (n) English phonetician (1881-1967), Syn. Daniel Jones |
jonesboro | (n) a town in northeast Arkansas |
jones' penstemon | (n) low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah, Syn. Penstemon dolius |