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dark web

dark web is the alternative letter-case form of Dark Web.

Proper noun capitalized: Dark Web

the Dark Web

  1. (Internet) The portion of the Deep Web hosted on darknets (“restricted networks”).
    • “Silk Road” was an underground website active on the Dark Web.
  2. (Internet, proscribed) The Deep Web.

Forms of dark web

alternative formdark web

Words formed from dark web

Questions about dark web

What does dark web mean?
Dark web means the portion of the Deep Web hosted on darknets (“restricted networks”).
What is dark web the alternative letter-case form of?
Dark web is the alternative letter-case form of Dark Web.
What part of speech is dark web?
Dark web is a proper noun.

Words near dark web in the dictionary

  1. dark triad
  2. dark up
  3. dark vowel
  4. dark vowels
  5. dark wave
  6. dark web
  7. dark woke
  8. dark world
  9. dark worlds
  10. dark-activity
  11. dark-adapted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dark web (page history and authors); Dark Web (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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