jargon

/ˈdʒɑrgən/

/ˈdʒɑgən/

Other forms: jargons

Jargon usually means the specialized language used by people in the same work or profession. Internet advertising jargon includes the terms "click throughs" and "page views."

This noun can also refer to language that uses long sentences and hard words. If you say that someone's speech or writing is full of jargon, this means you don't approve of it and think it should be simplified. In Middle English, this word referred to chattering, so its origin is probably imitative: it echoes the sound of chatter or meaningless words.

Definitions of jargon

1. noun

   specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
   types:

   doctorspeak

   medical jargon

   ecobabble

   using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware

   Eurobabble

   the jargon of European community documents and regulations

   gobbledygook

   incomprehensible or wordy jargon of specialists

   psychobabble

   using language loaded with psychological terminology

   technobabble

   technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects

   type of:

   expressive style, style

   a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
2. noun

   a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
   synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular

   types:

   street name

   slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)

   rhyming slang

   slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component

   type of:

   non-standard speech

   speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
3. noun

   a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
   synonyms: jargoon

   type of:

   zircon, zirconium silicate

   a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent