meta
/ˈmɛtə/US/ˈmɛtə/
meta noun: an informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard. Also the clipping of metagame.
Noun (1)
meta (plural metas)
- An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
- Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be.
- I remember interviewing PewDiePie a few years ago, and he was sort of telling me about this time where it was like edgy videos were being really rewarded, so everyone was kind of chasing like edgy humor and edgy memes, and sort of trying to figure out where the edge was. And then YouTube changed...2023 October 27, 29:51 from the start, in Hard Fork (podcast), spoken by Kevin Roose, The New York Times
Adjective
meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)
- Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
- Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
- Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.
- Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.
- I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
Noun (2)
UK/ˈmiːtə/US/ˈmiːtə/
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Meta
Meta
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Meta
Meta
- A city in Osage County, Missouri.
Also used as
meta is also the clipping of metagame.
meta is also the clipping of metaoidioplasty.
meta is also the clipping of metamour.
meta is also the clipping of metanalysis.
meta meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
meta in Hindi
- मेटा, मैटा
meta in Tamil
- மெட்டா
meta in Marathi
- मेटा, मेता
meta in Urdu
- میٹا
More languagesFewer languages
- meta in Bengali
- মেটা
- meta in Telugu
- మెటా
- meta in Malayalam
- മെറ്റാ, മെറ്റ
- meta in Kannada
- ಮೆಟಾ
- meta in Punjabi
- ਮੈਟਾ
- meta in Gujarati
- મેટા
- meta in Odia
- ମେଟା
- meta in Nepali
- मेटा
Examples of meta in a sentence
- And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views.2023 October 27, 29:51 from the start, in Hard Fork (podcast), spoken by Kevin Roose, The New York Times:
- […] in finessing obligations you fail a "meta" kind of obligation.2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity, →ISBN, page 31:
- Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta, very '97.2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do?, →ISBN, page 186:
- McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks.2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times:
Forms of meta
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | metas |
| plural | metae |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more meta |
| superlative | most meta |
Origin of meta
Etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix). Etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1. The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix). Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available.
From Latin mēta.
The technology conglomerate is named for its connotative evocation of the idea of the metaverse, the research tool after metascience.
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Questions about meta
- What does meta mean?
- Meta means an informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
- What is meta in Hindi?
- Meta in Hindi is मेटा, मैटा. See Meta meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use meta in a sentence?
- And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views.
- What part of speech is meta?
- Meta can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce meta?
- Meta is pronounced /ˈmɛtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of meta?
- The plural of meta is metas.
Words near meta in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: meta (page history and authors); Meta (page history and authors); meta (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meta (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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