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URL

noun · 6 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: Y UW2 AA2 R EH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

  • https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of English Wiktionary.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: IRI, URI

2

noun

Meaning 2

Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.

A domain name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: metonymically

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: IRI, URI

3

noun

Meaning 3

Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.

The username associated with a Tumblr blog and typically included in its URL.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: IRI, URI

4

noun

Meaning 4

Initialism of unrestricted line officer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: line officer

5

noun

Meaning 5

Initialism of upper reference limit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: mathematics, medicine, sciences, statistics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

the address of a web page on the world wide web

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: uniform resource locator, universal resource locator

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: address, computer address, reference

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 統一資源定位符 /统一资源定位符 (tǒngyī zīyuán dìngwèifú) — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Chinese Mandarin: 網址 /网址 (wǎngzhǐ) — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Dutch: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Finnish: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Finnish: verkko-osoite — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Finnish: web-osoite — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Finnish: urli — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Finnish: URL-osoite — Uniform Resource Locator
  • French: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Georgian: საინფორმაციო რესურსის მაჩვენებელი (sainpormacio resursis mačvenebeli) — Uniform Resource Locator
  • German: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Greek: ΟΕΠ — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Greek: ιστοδιεύθυνση (istodiéfthynsi) — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Hawaiian: helu kahuapaʻa — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Icelandic: vefslóð — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Japanese: 統一資源位置指定子 (tōitsu shigen ichi shiteishi) — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Polish: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Portuguese: endereço — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Scottish Gaelic: seòladh-lìn — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Spanish: LRU — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Swedish: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Turkish: BKB — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Turkish: URL — Uniform Resource Locator
  • Yiddish: או־ער־על (u-er-el) — Uniform Resource Locator