site

American  

[sahyt] / saɪt /

noun

1. the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment.

   the site of our summer cabin.

2. the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located.

   the site of ancient Troy.

   Synonyms:

   place, location, position

3. Computers. website.

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verb (used with object)

sited, siting

1. to place in or provide with a site; locate.

2. to put in position for operation, as artillery.

   to site a cannon.

site British  

/ saɪt /

noun

1. 1. the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located

      a building site

      archaeological site

   2. ( as modifier )

      site office

2. an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed

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verb

1. (tr) to locate, place, or install (something) in a specific place

Other Word Forms

• intersite adjective
• resite verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of site

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin situs “position, arrangement, site” (presumably originally, “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere “to leave, allow to be” + -tus suffix of verbal action

Explanation

A site is a location. The leader of a Zombie Army might remind his underlings: “Your web site is just a collection of pages at one address on the Web. Your burial site is where you find more soldiers!” Site can also refer to a specific parcel of land, such as a building site or a burial site. Although a website has no physical location, it does have a virtual one, which is reached the same way a physical location is: by going to an address.

Example Sentences

Instead, firefighters and public works employees were covering the site inch by inch with soil dredged from a nearby site.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

There is a museum on the site, which is now a permanent memorial, in an open space surrounded by the city's skyscrapers.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

May 14-22; check the site for park addresses near you.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

And in March, Anna Segur’s sixth-grader in Boulder, Colo. searched “going to epstein island” on YouTube, his most-accessed site, his records show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Two hours into the flight, Frank Powers switched on his plane’s cameras and photographed Baikonur Cosmodrome, the site from which Soviet scientists had shocked the world with their Sputnik launch.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Related Words

• ground
• home
• location
• scene
• section
• spot
• station