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

About 140 graves sit on the west side of the graveyard and 138 that sit on the opposite site, according to a satellite image taken in early April provided by SI Analytics.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

The job site Indeed performed an analysis of job postings for middle managers.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Beyond the garish aesthetic and how it changes a sacrosanct American site is that the paint job was unnecessary.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

It had been removed from the final conference—so, too, had been the slides that accompanied the talk that had been posted on the Bear Stearns Web site.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Related Words

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