mother jones

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsJonesMary Harris Jones

   Broaderlabor leader

Questions about mother jones

What does mother jones mean?

mother jones means "United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)".

What is another word for mother jones?

Close synonyms include Jones, Mary Harris 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 mother jones a common word?

mother 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.