JONESBORO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jonesboro mean? 

• JONESBORO (noun)
  The noun JONESBORO has 1 sense:

1. a town in northeast Arkansas

  Familiarity information: JONESBORO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JONESBORO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northeast Arkansas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Jonesboro" is a part of...):

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to transporting fluids, chemicals, and macromolecules, yet there are surprising similarities in their vascular network structures, said researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)