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website

UK/ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/US/ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/
nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,050 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: websites

A website is one place on the internet with its own address, like a shop or a newspaper. Visit the website, the website is down, build a website.

A website is not the same as the internet: the web runs on the internet, and email and messaging use it too without being part of the web. The word is one word now, having passed through Web site and web-site in a decade.

United States Antarctic Program · Public domain

Definitions of website

  1. 1nounwebsiteOne place on the internet with its own address.A2+

    “You can book tickets on the museum's website.”

website is a place online.

Also accepted in games: site

Where it comes from

From web + site.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Technology & Internet

Practise this word

website in the wild

  • There are also private websites that can only be accessed on a private network, such as a company's internal website for its employees.

    Website

  • As well as its main website, Ancestry operates country-specific versions for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

    Ancestry.com

  • Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user's device during a session.

    HTTP cookie

  • Chessgames.com is a chess website by Chessgames Services LLC that maintains a database of chess games combined with discussion forums.

    Chessgames.com

  • Founded in Paris in 2007, the website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding.

    XVideos

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.