Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indiana jones

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-ana jones
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.

Example Sentences

"There are many Indiana Joneses in the fields of science, history, and art who are willing to find ancient artifacts and remains."
"Their sights firmly set on unlocking their mysteries, these Indiana Joneses, it seems, summarily failed to solve the riddle – returning empty-handed to the shores of Western academe […]"
"Ambitious and hard-charging—an Indiana Jones of the Hawaiian bird world— Storrs would go on to become the world's greatest expert on Hawaiian fossil birds, discovering numerous species new to science […]"

Etymology

After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981, named after its creator George Lucas’s dog Indiana.

Inflected Forms

Indiana Joneses (plural)

Phrases

Indiana Jonesesque Indiana Jonesian

Rhymes With

jones loans phones bones stones owns thrones drones tones dow jones groans hones

Questions

What does indiana jones mean?: An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.
Where does indiana jones come from?: After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981, named after its creator George Lucas’s dog Indiana.

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