Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metalanguage

1 sense of metalanguage

Sense 1
metalanguage -- (a language that can be used to describe languages)
       => language, linguistic communication -- (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written")