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website

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt//

A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

noun

  1. 1

    A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

    Meronym: webpage

    You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.

    He is playing a video game on the website.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti Proto-Italic *sinō Latin sinō Latin situsder. Anglo-Norman sitebor. Middle English site English site English website From web + site.

Forms

plural
websites
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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).