HTML Definition
āchtē-ĕm-ĕl
noun
A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- hypertext mark-up language
- hypertext markup language
abbreviation
Hypertext Markup Language.
Webster's New World
Origin of HTML
H(yper)t(ext) M(arkup) L(anguage)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition