Jargon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
  • n. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin.
  • n. The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. See Synonyms at dialect.
  • n. Speech or writing having unusual or pretentious vocabulary, convoluted phrasing, and vague meaning.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak in or use jargon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
  • n. Language characteristic of a particular group.
  • n. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
  • n. A variety of zircon
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish.
  • n. an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
  • verb-intransitive. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
  • n. A variety of zircon. See zircon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Confused, unintelligible talk; irregular, formless speech or language; gabble; gibberish; babble.
  • n. Specifically A barbarous mixed speech, without literary monuments; a rude language resulting from the mixture of two or more discordant languages, especially of a cultivated language with a barbarous one: as, the Chinook jargon; the jargon called Pidgin-English.
  • n. Any phraseology peculiar to a sect, profession, trade, art, or science; professional slang or cant.
  • n. Synonyms Chatter, Babble, etc. See prattle, n.
  • To utter unintelligible sounds.
  • n. A colorless, yellowish, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon from Ceylon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
  • n. specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  • n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  • Verb Form
    jargoned    jargoning    jargons   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    chatter   
    Variant
    zircon   
    Form
    jargoned    jargoning   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gibberish    slang    argot    cant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bargain    largen   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    phraseology    dialect    terminology    babble    nonsense    lingo    gibberish    slang    cant    chatter