Synonyms & related words for metalanguage

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of metalanguage. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to metalanguage

Explore words related to metalanguage — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include sublanguage, tonemic, metalinguistics, idioglossia, diglossic, polyseme, metalinguistically, tagmemics. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does metalanguage come from?

The word metalanguage breaks down into 2 roots of Greek and Latin origin: meta-, from Greek meta (“beyond, about (higher order)”); and language, from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.