METALANGUAGE

metalanguage

(noun) a language that can be used to describe languages

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

(linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.

(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

9 October 2024

VOLATILE

(noun) a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; “it was heated to evaporate the volatiles”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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