World Wide Web

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/ ˈwɜrld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb /

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Definition of World Wide Web

noun

Usually the World Wide Web (except when used before a noun). a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the internet.Abbreviation: WWW

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Origin of World Wide Web

First recorded in 1990–95

historical usage of World Wide Web

See internet.

Words nearby World Wide Web

World War I, World War II, World War III, world-weary, worldwide, World Wide Web, worm, wormcast, worm conveyor, worm drive, worm-eaten

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How to use World Wide Web in a sentence

It is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web.
These Were Our Favorite Tech Stories From Around the Web in 2020|Singularity Hub Staff|January 2, 2021|Singularity Hub
The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical|Stereo Williams|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for World Wide Web

World Wide Web

noun

computing a vast network of linked hypertext files, stored on computers throughout the world, that can provide a computer user with information on a huge variety of subjectsAbbreviation: WWW

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Scientific definitions for World Wide Web

World Wide Web

[ wûrld ]

The complete set of electronic documents stored on computers that are connected over the Internet and are made available by the protocol known as HTTP. The World Wide Web makes up a large part of the Internet. See more at Internet.

Cultural definitions for World Wide Web

World Wide Web

See Internet.