METALANGUAGE meaning: Language used to describe language

We found 24 dictionaries that define the word metalanguage:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

metalanguage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
metalanguage: Merriam-Webster
metalanguage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
metalanguage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
metalanguage: Collins English Dictionary
metalanguage: Vocabulary.com
metalanguage: Wordnik
metalanguage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
metalanguage: Wiktionary
metalanguage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
metalanguage: Infoplease Dictionary
metalanguage: Dictionary.com
Metalanguage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
metalanguage: Rhymezone
metalanguage: FreeDictionary.org
metalanguage: Mnemonic Dictionary
metalanguage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

metalanguage: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
metalanguage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

metalanguage: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
▸ noun: (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language

Opposite:

object language, base language, primary language

Phrases:

Natural semantic metalanguage, more...

Adjectives:

semantic, own, natural, meta, new, semantical, universal, formal, appropriate, common, scientific

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