metalanguage
nounEtymology
From meta- + language.
- derived from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s✻
- derived from dingua
- derived from lingua
- derived from *linguāticum✻
- derived from language
- inherited from langage
Definitions
Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic…
Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
- In order to talk or theorise about phenomena, one inevitably uses a language that is in effect a metalanguage, a special instance of language that allows the theorist to stand back and describe what is happening.
Any similar language used to define a programming language
The neighborhood
- neighbormetalingual
- neighbormetalinguist
- neighbormetalinguistic
- neighborepilanguage
- neighbormetadiscourse
- neighborobject language
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for metalanguage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA