SOURCE LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does source language mean? 

• SOURCE LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun SOURCE LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a language that is to be translated into another language

  Familiarity information: SOURCE LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOURCE LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A language that is to be translated into another language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("source language" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "source language"):

application-oriented language; problem-oriented language (a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user)

command language; query language; search language (a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed)