Jonestown

Übersetzung von "jonestown" ins Russisch

Substantiv

Jonestown

Jonestowns Pl.

Occasionally used as a common noun meaning any cult-related mass-suicide event.

переносное значение: катастрофическое массовое самоубийство секты

Commentators warned that the movement risked becoming another Jonestown.

Комментаторы предупреждали, что движение рискует стать очередным джонстауном.

Eigenname

Jonestown

The historical settlement in Guyana and the tragedy associated with it are treated as a proper noun.

Jonestown was founded by Jim Jones as an agricultural commune.

Джонстаун был основан Джимом Джонсом как сельскохозяйственная коммуна.

Substantiv

Any catastrophic mass-suicide event perpetrated by a cult or extremist group, reminiscent of the Jonestown tragedy.

Commentators warned that the movement risked becoming another Jonestown.

Eigenname

A former settlement in northwestern Guyana established by the Peoples Temple cult, where more than 900 members died in a mass murder–suicide in 1978.

Jonestown was founded by Jim Jones as an agricultural commune in the Guyanese jungle.

The 1978 mass murder–suicide of Peoples Temple members that occurred at this settlement.

Historians still debate the factors that led to Jonestown.