World Wide Web

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/
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• General-American: /ˈwɝld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/
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From worldwide + web. Coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau in a paper published on 12 November 1990 (see quotations below).

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Wêreldwye web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Arabic: شَبَكَة عَنْكَبُوتِيَّة عَالَمِيَّة — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Bengali: বিশ্বব্যাপী জাল (biśbabāpī-jāl) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Bulgarian: Световна мрежа (Svetovna mreža) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Catalan: World Wide Web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Chinese Mandarin: 萬維網 /万维网 (Wànwéiwǎng) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Danish: webben — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Esperanto: Tut-Tera Teksaĵo — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Finnish: maailmanlaajuinen tietoverkko — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Finnish: verkko — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Finnish: web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Finnish: WWW — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• French: Toile d'araignée mondiale — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• French: Toile mondiale — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• French: Toile — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Georgian: ქსელი (kseli) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Georgian: მსოფლიო აბლაბუდა (msoplio ablabuda) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Georgian: მსოფლიო გლობალური ქსელი (msoplio globaluri kseli) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Georgian: მსოფლიო კომპიუტერული ქსელი (msoplio ḳomṗiuṭeruli kseli) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Georgian: მსოფლიო ქსელი (msoplio kseli) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• German: World Wide Web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Greek: Παγκόσμιος Ιστός (Pagkósmios Istós) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Hawaiian: Pūnaewele Puni Honua — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Hindi: विश्वव्यापी संजाल (viśvavyāpī-sanjāl) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Hungarian: világháló — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Icelandic: veraldarvefurinn — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Indonesian: Waring Wera Wanua — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Indonesian: Jaringan Jagat Jembar — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Irish: Gréasán Domhanda — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Japanese: ワールドワイドウェブ (Wārudo Waido Uebu) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Kazakh: әлемтор (älemtor) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Kazakh: ғаламтор (ğalamtor) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Khmer: វើលវ៉ាយវ៉េប (vəəl vaay veep) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Korean: 월드 와이드 웹 (Woldeu waideu wep) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Latin: Tela Totius Terrae — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Lithuanian: saitynas — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Lithuanian: žiniatinklis — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Macedonian: Све́тска мре́жа (Svétska mréža) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Malay: jaringan sejagat — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Māori: Tukutuku Ao Whānui — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Norwegian Bokmål: verdensveven — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Norwegian Nynorsk: verdsveven — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Persian: وب جهانگستر (veb e jahân-gostar) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Persian: شبکه جهانگستر (šabake-ye jahân-gostar) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Polish: World Wide Web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Polish: ogólnoświatowa sieć — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Portuguese: net — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Portuguese: rede — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Portuguese: rede mundial de computadores — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Portuguese: web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Russian: Всеми́рная паути́на (Vsemírnaja pautína) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Russian: веб (veb) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Sanskrit: विश्वव्यापीजाल (viśvavyāpījāla) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Serbo-Croatian: World Wide Web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Sotho: Marangrang a phatlalletseng — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Swedish: webb — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Tagalog: pandaigdigang-sapot — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Tagalog: sapot — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Tamil: உலகளாவிய வலை (ulakaḷāviya valai) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Thai: เวิลด์ไวด์เว็บ (wəəl-waai-wép) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Turkish: World Wide Web — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Turkish: Dünya Çapında Ağ — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Ukrainian: Всесві́тнє павути́ння (Vsesvítnje pavutýnnja) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Ukrainian: веб (veb) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Urdu: بین الشبکہ (bain-uś-śabaka) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Urdu: عالمی جال (ālamī-jāl) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Urdu: عالمی شبکہ (ālamī-śabaka) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Urdu: عالم گیر جال (ālam-gīr-jāl) — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Venda: webe yo ṱanganyaho shango — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Volapük: volaresod — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Welsh: Gwe Fyd-Eang — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Xhosa: uthungelwano lwehlabathi kwi-intanethi — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media
• Zulu: Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele — all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media