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Joneses
[ john-ziz ]
plural noun
- one's neighbors, friends, business associates, etc.:
Keeping up with the Joneses has put him in debt.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Joneses1
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Example Sentences
John came to see The Realistic Joneses and we went out to dinner after and talked casually about the show, but that was it.
Now I think people just make them to keep up with the Joneses.
Your other current project, The Realistic Joneses, closes in July after 132 shows.
I try to use a lot of the old words where I can, just one of my joneses.
Enid, where the Joneses live and farm on 3,000 acres, sits in the middle part of the state.
It was enough to give a man nightmares, to watch that line of High-Pockets Joneses advancing across an open composing-room.
Back again in despair to Conway, where we got temporary lodgings at one of the numerous Joneses.
The Joneses they—well, they ain't none of 'em too partic'lar, though warmer-hearted folks never lived.
Leaning in the doorway of the one-room cabin that had been home for these Joneses I was stirred to my depths.
She is still a child, but a woman before her time, and Mrs. Jones and all the young Joneses will miss her when she goes "out."
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