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Web

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //wɛb//

The World Wide Web.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The World Wide Web.

    Some of that content is now only available on the Web.

    Web page

    Content on the Web is divided into individual computer files called pages.

Etymology

Ellipsis of World Wide Web.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).