🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

langage de balisage

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lɑ̃.ɡaʒ də ba.li.zaʒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Markup language/ˈmɑːrk.ʌp ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le HTML est un langage de balisage standard pour le web."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A computer language that uses tags to define elements within a document, specifying how text is structured, displayed, or processed.

    "HTML is the most widely used markup language for creating web pages."
  2. 2

    A system of annotation attached to a digital document that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.

    "XML provides a generalized framework for defining custom markup languages."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'markup', originating from the publishing industry practice of marking up manuscript text with instructions for typesetters, and 'language', from Old French and Latin roots meaning a system of communication. With the advent of digital text processing and the World Wide Web in the late 20th century, the term evolved to describe computer languages that use tags to annotate text documents for formatting and structural representation.

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