jargonとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

名詞

jargon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
   • 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today:

     In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.

3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     A barbarous jargon.

同意語

• (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
• vernacular

派生語

動詞

jargon (三人称単数 現在形 jargons, 現在分詞 jargoning, 過去形および過去分詞形 jargoned)

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book number):

     Prussian Trenck […] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn

     The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.

名詞

jargon (複数形 jargons)

1. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)

Further reading

• Jargon on Wikipedia.
• Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.