Definitions for jargons

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jargons jar·gon

Spelling: [jahr-guh n, -gon]

IPA: /ˈdʒɑr gən, -gɒn/

Jargons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in jargons (agjnors).

Definitions for jargons

noun

1. the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group:
2. unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish.
3. any talk or writing that one does not understand.
4. pidgin.
5. language that is characterized by uncommon or pretentious vocabulary and convoluted syntax and is often vague in meaning.
6. a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.

verb (used without object)

1. to speak in or write jargon; jargonize.

Origin of jargons

1300-50; Middle English jargoun Middle French; Old French jargon, gargun, derivative of an expressive base *garg-; see gargle, gargoyle

Examples for jargons

With jargons as with coins the poorer (simpler) drives out the better (subtler and more complex).

French, English, Spanish—all were jargons to these people of the southern desert.

Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

The language of Worship was but one; though the jargons of Opinion were many.

A little attention to the jargons invented by children might have been serviceable to certain philologists.

Such conventional languages are usually called "jargons," and their existence is rather brief.

The jargons of the East, Far and Near, he spoke as his mother tongue.

Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God's work, in simplicity and singleness of heart.