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sémantique — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • semantic adjective Relating to meaning in language, or to the meaning of words and sentences rather than their form.
  • semantics noun The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning in language.

Senses

sémantique is used for these senses in English:

  • semantic Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words. [from late 19th c.]

semantic — full definition

  1. adjective Relating to meaning in language, or to the meaning of words and sentences rather than their form.
  2. adjective Concerning a distinction of wording that has no real effect on substance; used to dismiss an argument as being about words alone.
  3. adjective In computing, describing markup or data whose tags convey what the content means rather than how it should look.

semantics — full definition

  1. noun The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning in language.
  2. noun Informally, the fine distinctions or technicalities of wording in an argument, often used dismissively.
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