1. meta - Noun
2. meta - Adjective
3. Meta - Proper noun
meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)
(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.
Boundary marker.
(historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
(video games) Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game in a given period of time.
I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.
(by extension, Internet slang) 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.
meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)
(video games) 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.
meta (plural metas)
(informal) Metoidioplasty.
Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, formerly called Facebook, Inc. (until late 2021); it is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company that is the parent organization of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other subsidiaries.
Meta, a biomedical research discovery tool (2010-2022; scheduled for shutdown in 2023).
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English Wikipedia has an article on:Meta, MissouriWikipedia
A city in Missouri.
META
An HTML element for webpage metadata, coded as meta or META.
Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions. Satya Nadella
I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.' Jesse Bradford
My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta. Miranda Hart
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. Noah Baumbach
Approached by guards, Ralph reveals his meta power to them to safety down below. Source: Internet
But its tongue-in-cheek subject matter about killers and victims who know every movie trope inspired a generation of meta stories across genres. Source: Internet