Metadata
8 lettersnounmoderateUpdated February 2026
Definition
Data that provides information about other data; descriptive information about documents, files, or web pages. Information describing the characteristics of data.
“The photograph's metadata includes the camera settings, date, and location information.”
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Four vowels E-A-A; META- prefix from Greek
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Worth 11 points; modern technical term increasingly common
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