Definition of Mother jones

1. Noun. United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).

Exact synonyms: Jones, Mary Harris Jones
Generic synonyms: Labor Leader

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mother Jones

Mostar
Mosul
Motacilla
Motacillidae
Motais' operation
Moteuczoma
Mother's Day
Mother's Days
Mother Carey's chicken
Mother Carey's hen
Mother City
Mother Earth
Mother Goose
Mother Hubbard
Mother Jones
Mother Nature
Mother Russia
Mother Seton
Mother Superior
Mother Superiors
Mother Teresa
Mother Theresa
Mother of God
Mother of God's plant
Mothering Sunday
Mothers Night
Mothers Nights
Motherwell
Mothman

Literary usage of Mother jones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"New Repub 2: 73-4 F 30 '15 mother jones and Mr. Rockefeller. Outlook 109:303 F 10 '15 Portrait lud 81:196 F 8 '15 Jones, Myrta L. 80 Je '15 Jones, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"Poor mother jones! It was hard to be waked In- such news, for those few short ... Father and mother jones sat, in silence, until, when they were almost done ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... time of the devise, the word "children" is to be construed as a word of purchase, and the children take a Joint estate with the mother. Jones' Ex'rs v. ..."

4. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
""mother jones" forcibly deported from Colorado strike zone, Trinidad. Ja 4 Representative Keating asks Congress to inquire into. ..."

5. The Tobacco Worker by Tobacco Workers International Union (1907)
"AN ANECDOTE OF mother jones. "mother jones" is full of interesting- anecdotes, says the Erie Union Labor Journal, which if put into print would make capital ..."

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