Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jones

6 senses of jones

Sense 1
Jones, Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jones -- (United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930))
       INSTANCE OF=> labor leader -- (a leader of a labor movement)

Sense 2
Jones, Casey Jones, John Luther Jones -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> engineer, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer, engine driver -- (the operator of a railway locomotive)

Sense 3
Jones, Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones -- (United States golfer (1902-1971))
       INSTANCE OF=> golfer, golf player, linksman -- (someone who plays the game of golf)

Sense 4
Jones, John Paul Jones -- (American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792))
       INSTANCE OF=> naval commander -- (naval officer in command of a fleet of warships)

Sense 5
Jones, Inigo Jones -- (one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652))
       INSTANCE OF=> architect, designer -- (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 6
Jones, Daniel Jones -- (English phonetician (1881-1967))
       INSTANCE OF=> phonetician -- (a specialist in phonetics)