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site

noun · verb · 13 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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  • sīt
  • /saɪt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aɪt
  • homophone: cite
  • homophone: sight
  • CMU ARPABET: S AY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • the site of a city or of a house
  • 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8, A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
  • 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Corrections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315, However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a site for a church

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The posture or position of a thing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179, And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, p. 208, If the site is forced to send a message against its will, [...],we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A website.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

Examples

  • 1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi, [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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7

noun

Meaning 7

Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A part of the body which has been operated on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To situate or place a building or construction project.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
  • 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24, For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: web site, website, internet site

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system

Narrower terms: chat room, chatroom, portal site, portal

11

noun

Meaning 11

physical position in relation to the surroundings

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: situation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: position, place

Narrower terms: active site, close quarters, locus, locus of infection, restriction site, antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope

12

noun

Meaning 12

the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a good site for the school

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: land site

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

Narrower terms: camp, summer camp, apron, bomb site, campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area, cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis, dig, excavation, archeological site, dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite, fairway, green, putting green, putting surface, launching site, monument, premises, rough, tee, teeing ground, toxic site, toxic waste area, Superfund site, ground zero, Lateran

13

verb

Meaning 13

assign a location to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: locate, place

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: station, post, send, place

History

Etymology

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.

Across languages

Translations

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَوْضِع (mawḍiʕ) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Arabic: مكان (makān) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Bulgarian: място (mjasto) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Bulgarian: местоположе́ние (mestopoložénie) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Catalan: lloc — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Catalan: terreny — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Finnish: paikka — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Finnish: sijaintipaikka — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • French: site — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • French: emplacement — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Galician: canto — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Galician: sitio — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Galician: eido — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Georgian: ადგილი (adgili) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • German: Standort — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (staþs) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Greek: τόπος (tópos) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Greek: χώρος (chóros) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Greek: τοποθεσία (topothesía) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Hebrew: אֲתָר (atár) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Ido: situo — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Indonesian: situs — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Indonesian: tapak — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Latin: situs — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Māori: papanga — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Māori: takotoranga — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Māori: tūranga — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Mizo: hmun — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Mizo: ţhuthmun — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Persian: جایگاه (jâygâh) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Persian: گاه (gâh) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Persian: محل (mahall) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Plautdietsch: Städ — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Portuguese: sítio — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Portuguese: local — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Portuguese: lugar — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Russian: местоположе́ние (mestopoložénije) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Russian: местонахожде́ние (mestonaxoždénije) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Russian: ме́сто (mésto) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Russian: положе́ние (položénije) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Russian: уча́сток (učástok) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Scots: steid — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Spanish: solar — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Spanish: sitio — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Swedish: ställe — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Swedish: plats — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Tocharian B: īke — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Turkish: yer — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Ukrainian: мі́сце (mísce) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Ukrainian: місцезнахо́дження (misceznaxódžennja) — place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  • Bulgarian: място (mjasto) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Catalan: lloc — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • French: site — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Greek: τόπος (tópos) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Greek: χώρος (chóros) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Ido: situo — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Mizo: ţhuthmun — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Persian: جا (jâ) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Polish: miejsce — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Russian: уча́сток (učástok) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Russian: площа́дка (ploščádka) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Russian: ме́сто (mésto) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Spanish: sitio — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Swedish: säte — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Ukrainian: діля́нка (diljánka) — place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  • Bulgarian: позиция (pozicija) — posture or position of a thing
  • Māori: tūranga — posture or position of a thing
  • Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh — posture or position of a thing
  • Greek: εγκατάσταση (egkatástasi) — a computer installation
  • Scottish Gaelic: ionad — a computer installation
  • Arabic: مَوْقِع (mawqiʕ) — a website
  • Bulgarian: интернет страница (internet stranica) — a website
  • Catalan: plana web — a website
  • Catalan: lloc web — a website
  • Chinese Mandarin: 網站 /网站 (wǎngzhàn) — a website
  • Chinese Mandarin: 站 (zhàn) — a website
  • Chinese Mandarin: 站點 /站点 (zhàndiǎn) — a website
  • Esperanto: retejo — a website
  • Estonian: sait — a website
  • Estonian: leht — a website
  • Estonian: veebileht — a website
  • Finnish: sivusto — a website
  • French: site — a website
  • Georgian: ვებგვერდი (vebgverdi) — a website
  • German: Webseite — a website
  • German: Website — a website
  • German: Webpräsenz — a website
  • Greek: ιστότοπος (istótopos) — a website
  • Greek: ιστοχώρος (istochóros) — a website
  • Greek: ιστοσελίδα (istoselída) — a website
  • Hebrew: אֲתָר (atár) — a website
  • Hungarian: oldal — a website
  • Ido: retoloko — a website
  • Lithuanian: svetainė — a website
  • Mizo: phêk — a website
  • Mizo: hmun — a website
  • Persian: پایگاه (pâygâh) — a website
  • Persian: سایت (sâyt) — a website
  • Portuguese: site — a website
  • Portuguese: sítio — a website
  • Russian: сайт (sajt) — a website
  • Russian: веб-са́йт (vɛb-sájt) — a website
  • Scottish Gaelic: ionad — a website
  • Spanish: sitio — a website
  • Spanish: sitio web — a website
  • Swedish: sajt — a website
  • Swedish: webbplats — a website
  • Swedish: webbsida — a website
  • Swedish: hemsida — a website
  • Turkish: Web bölgesi — a website
  • Turkish: Web sitesi — a website
  • Ukrainian: сайт (sajt) — a website
  • Volapük: resodatoped — a website
  • Catalan: lloc — region where chemical reactions take place
  • French: site — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Hebrew: אֲתָר (atár) — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Italian: sito — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Persian: جایگاه فعال — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Portuguese: sítio — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Russian: сайт (sajt) — region where chemical reactions take place
  • Spanish: sitio — region where chemical reactions take place