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I understand that the prefix 'meta-' has multiple definitions, what is the most common definition of it according to your experience?

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

What are the definitions that you know?

Clive

AH020387 · Answer

'after', 'along with', 'beyond', 'among', 'behind'

Clive · Answer

Hi,
I understand that the prefix 'meta-' has multiple definitions, what is the most common definition of it according to your experience?

'after', 'along with', 'beyond', 'among', 'behind'

My first reaction is that we don't really think at all about the prefix, when we use words like metabolism, metamorphosis, metaphysics.
If I think about it at all, I think about it as suggesting 'change'. That seems to be the idea in all those words.

It's from the Greek meta, meaning with, after.

Clive

AH020387 · Answer

Thanks

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