1. Jonestown - Noun
2. Jonestown - Proper noun
A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
(informal) The Jonestown massacre itself.
Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.
Jonestown (plural Jonestowns)
Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.
Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe
I did a lot of soul-searching before going public. I was concerned there might be some type of Waco or Jonestown event. Mark Rathbun
Ladies and gentlemen, every path leads somewhere. That is what a path is all about. The path of segregation leads to lynching every time. The path of antisemitism leads to Auschwitz every time. The path of the cults leads to Jonestown - and we ignore it at our peril. Maurice Davis
But is this Dow Jones or Jonestown? Source: Internet
Ms. Heart is survived by her two sons, Raymond D. Heart and wife Michelle of Chesapeake Bay, VA, and Melvin D. Heart of Jonestown, NY, and one grandchild Alexander D. Heart. Source: Internet
“Around five this afternoon, armed men from Jonestown attacked an American Congressman and his delegation at the Port Kaituma airstrip.” Source: Internet