Added 8 October 2026
site
/saɪt/ noun
In Latin: situs Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about site at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
a good site for the school
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Physical position in relation to the surroundings.
the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides
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A computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web.
the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers
verb
Origin
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.
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