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Jonesboro

Jonesboro proper noun: a city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Craighead County.

Proper noun

Jonesboro

  1. A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Craighead County.
  2. A city, the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia.
  3. A city, the county seat of Union County, Illinois.
  4. A town, the parish seat of Jackson Parish, Louisiana.
  5. A town in Washington County, Maine.
  6. Former name of Napton, Missouri.

Origin of Jonesboro

From Jones + -boro.

Questions about Jonesboro

What does Jonesboro mean?
Jonesboro means a city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Craighead County.
What part of speech is Jonesboro?
Jonesboro is a proper noun.

Words near Jonesboro in the dictionary

  1. Jones plug
  2. Jones plugs
  3. Jones polynomial
  4. Jones polynomials
  5. Jones reductor
  6. Jonesboro
  7. Jonesborough
  8. jonesed
  9. Joneser
  10. Jonesers
  11. joneses

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