Meaning of Jonestown | Babel Free

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

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