site

site · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    (noun) An area of ground on which something is located or built.

  2. 2.

    (noun) A place where a particular event occurred.

  3. 3.

    (noun) A website; a location on the internet.

  4. 4.

    (verb) To place or locate something in a particular position.

Forms

plural: sites

Related words

See also: location, place, website
Synonyms: location, place, position, spot

Etymology

From Latin situs ("position, site, situation"), past participle of sinere ("to allow, leave"). The word entered English through Anglo-French. The internet meaning developed in the 1990s as a shortening of "website."