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web site

/ˈwɛbˌsaɪt/

web site is the alternative form of website.

Meaning of website

Noun

website (plural websites)

  1. (Internet) 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
    Synonyms:
    web site, web-site, site, Internet site

Noun capitalized: Web site

Web site (plural Web sites)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of website.
    • In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words.2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2018

Forms of web site

pluralweb sites
pluralWeb sites

Questions about web site

What is web site the alternative form of?
Web site is the alternative form of website.
What part of speech is web site?
Web site is a noun.
How do you pronounce web site?
Web site is pronounced /ˈwɛbˌsaɪt/.
What is the plural of web site?
The plural of web site is web sites.

Words near web site in the dictionary

  1. Web services
  2. web shell
  3. web shells
  4. web shop
  5. web shops
  6. web site
  7. web sites
  8. web space
  9. Web spider
  10. Web spiders
  11. web surfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: web site (page history and authors); Web site (page history and authors); website (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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