object language

Meaning

1. noun A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
2. noun the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
3. noun target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

Similar words

target language ordinary language philosophy language game illocution langue private language problem microlinguistics lexical semantics pragmalinguistics sublineation

Word family

object languages