Associations to the word «Metalanguage»

Wiktionary

METALANGUAGE, noun. (linguistics) (translation studies) (critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
METALANGUAGE, noun. (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.

Dictionary definition

METALANGUAGE, noun. A language that can be used to describe languages.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope