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• web address
  web address

  noun

  URL.
• Web address
  Web address

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

web address

American  

Or Web address

noun

• web addresses
  plural

1. Computers. URL.

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web address British  

noun

1. computing another name for URL

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Web address Cultural  

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

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Noun Inflected Forms

• web addresses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of web address

First recorded in 1990–95

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Example Sentences

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web address Web address

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

Those links, which appear connected to the state government website, were interspersed with legitimate web address for the business services and other information provided by the secretary of state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

After examining the URL, or web address, of one scam page he said it was most likely a paid-for Facebook advert.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024

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

Nix bellowed out that Web address several times a day.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2015

And because the co-opted site retains the official Web address of the real journal, how can you tell it’s fake?

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2015

I take the folded Web address out of my pocket and head into my mom’s office, where we keep the computer.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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