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web address

American  
Or Web address

noun

  • web addresses
    plural
  1. Computers. URL.


web address British  

noun

  1. computing another name for URL

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Web address Cultural  
  1. The location on the Internet of a certain company, server, or file. (See URL.)


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Etymology

Origin of web address

First recorded in 1990–95

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From his office computer in California, he went to deepseek.com—the same web address his friend in China had used—pasted in the rebuttal, and asked the bot to verify each claim.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

A good sign is if it the web address ends with .pharmacy.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

But a flaw in how X displays some links meant the full web address had been truncated to https://t.me/securelycont - an unused Telegram username.

From BBC Oct. 17, 2023

The web address, starspangled200.org, had been redirecting to a landing page for the Fafa855 Internet casino’s branch in the Philippines since at least December 2022.

From Washington Times Jun. 10, 2023

I quickly type in the web address for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms that’s listed on the board.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

Rather than hosting its copy of Coinbase directly on conibase.com, visitors to that site were redirected to yet another nearly identical Web address.

From Seattle Times Oct. 8, 2021

The site cannot be found through a Google search and can be reached only by users who know its exact, algorithm-generated Web address and are using special software that connects to the Tor network.

From Washington Post Jan. 21, 2016

The little padlock next to a Web address indicates the connection is encrypted.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2015

If the Web address of an online journal matches its official record on Web of Science, then you could be confident that it’s the real deal.

From Science Magazine Nov. 19, 2015

As soon as it does, I type in the Web address, not even bothering to check my e-mail first.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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