Usually means: Awareness of language and its structures.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word metalinguistic:

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  1. metalinguistic: Merriam-Webster
  2. metalinguistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metalinguistic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metalinguistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metalinguistic: Wiktionary
  6. metalinguistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. metalinguistic: Dictionary.com
  8. Metalinguistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. metalinguistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (metalinguistic)

adjective:  (linguistics) Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.
adjective:  Pertaining to metalinguistics.

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