# Jonestown

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #63,012

## Definitions
1. A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
2. The Jonestown massacre itself.
3. Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.

## Etymology
From Jones + town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/jonestown