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METALANGUAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does metalanguage mean?
• METALANGUAGE (noun)
The noun METALANGUAGE has 1 sense:
1. a language that can be used to describe languages
Familiarity information: METALANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A language that can be used to describe languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("metalanguage" 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 "metalanguage"):
syntax language (a language used to describe the syntax of another language)
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