Usually means: Specialized language used by experts.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word jargon:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. jargon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jargon, jargon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jargon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jargon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jargon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jargon, jargon: Wordnik
  7. jargon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jargon: Wiktionary
  9. jargon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jargon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jargon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jargon: Dictionary.com
  13. jargon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jargon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jargon (disambiguation), Jargon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jargon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jargon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jargon: Rhymezone
  19. Jargon (m), jargon, jargon (het), jargon (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jargon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. jargon: Free Dictionary
  22. jargon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. jargon: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jargon: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. jargon: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jargon: CCI Computer
  2. Jargon (pidgin): Encyclopedia
  3. jargon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jargon: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. jargon: Medical dictionary
  4. Jargon: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jargon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jargoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
noun:  (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
noun:  (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
verb:  To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
noun:  Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”) [A variety of zircon.]

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