Jonestown

== English == === Etymology === From Jones +‎ town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple. === Proper noun === Jonestown 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. ==== Derived terms ==== Jonestowner ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== drink the Kool-Aid === Noun === Jonestown (plural Jonestowns) Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones. ==== Translations ====