Usually means: Cult commune, mass suicide tragedy.
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  1. Jonestown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  3. Jonestown: Wiktionary
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  5. jonestown: Dictionary.com
  6. Jonestown (disambiguation), Jonestown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. jonestown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jonestown)

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.
noun:  (informal) The Jonestown massacre itself.
noun:  Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.
noun:  Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.

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