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Jones•town

Pronunciation: ( jōnz'toun"), [key]
—n.
a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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