Meaning

3 senses
  1. Clipping of metagame.

    (Internet, broadly, countable)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.

  2. Boundary marker.

  3. (historical)Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. I'm interested in things meta-physical.

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  2. Meta will control your life.

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  3. The village people called the old woman Meta.

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  4. Facebook controls your screen life. Meta will control your whole life.

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  5. What is it like to work as a software engineer at Meta?

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Origin

From Latin mēta.

From Latin mēta.

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Forms

plural: metas / metae
Singularmeta
Pluralmetas / metae

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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