markup language

1. 1.

   a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document

   Broaderterminology

   Narrowerstandard generalized markup languagehypertext markup language

Questions about markup language

What does markup language mean?

markup language means "a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document".

Is markup language a common word?

markup language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.