dark web

or Dark Web

[ dahrk-web ]

noun
  1. the portion of the internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.

Origin of dark web

1
First recorded in 2000–05

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How to use dark web in a sentence

  • I have not been idle, yet do I not hold in my hand all the threads of the dark web that encompasses us.

    Under the Witches' Moon | Nathan Gallizier
  • Entangled in the dark web of metaphysical moralities, he caught at the excuse by which the Egyptian converted vice into a virtue.

    The Last Days of Pompeii | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton