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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 languagesplay

  Familiarity information: METALANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


METALANGUAGE (noun)


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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