METALANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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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