Standard Lemma guide

PHP

name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • CMU ARPABET: P IY1 EY1 CH P IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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name

Meaning 1

Initialism of Primary Health Properties.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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name

Meaning 2

A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computer-languages, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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noun

Meaning 3

Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A PHP script.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

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History

Etymology

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.