Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal)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.

  2. 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.

Examples

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

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  2. Meta will control your life.

  3. The village people called the old woman Meta.

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

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

Translations

2 languages

Forms

more meta, most meta
Comparativemore meta Lesson
Superlativemost meta Lesson

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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