metalanguage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
Any similar language used to define a programming language

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metalanguage metalanguages

From meta- + language.

metalingual metalinguist metalinguistic epilanguage metadiscourse object language

metametalanguage

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