noun · academic

metadata

/ˈmɛtədəˌdeɪtə/MET·a·data

Band 7+task2speaking

data that provides information about other data, such as author, date created, file size

Examples

Journalists examined the metadata of the leaked document to verify its origin.

Photos often contain metadata showing when and where they were taken.

Properly managed metadata makes large databases much easier to search.

Band 8 sentence

Effective archiving relies on rich metadata to ensure documents remain discoverable decades later.

Collocations

  • image metadata
  • embedded metadata
  • metadata fields

Word family

metadata noun (uncountable)meta-data noun (variant)

Common mistakes

data about datametadata

meta data (two words)metadata

Say it for a higher band

5data about data6file information7+metadata

Synonyms

data about data

Easily confused

tag

The photo's metadata showed the date, while the user-added tag described the event.

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