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METALANGUAGE
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I. (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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