john luther jones

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   United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)

   SynonymsJonesCasey Jones

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What does john luther jones mean?

john luther jones means "United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)".

What is another word for john luther jones?

Close synonyms include Jones, Casey Jones. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is john luther jones a common word?

john luther jones is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.