markup language

English Thesaurus

1. a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	language, nomenclature, terminology,
definition	:	a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	sgml, standard generalized markup language,
definition	:	(computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	html, hypertext mark-up language, hypertext markup language,
definition	:	a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents (noun.communication)