site

A2 Topic:Places & Geography

US /saɪt/ See IPA manual

Homophones

cite /saɪt/ sight /saɪt/

Freq #2010

Meanings

1

noun
a place on the internet where you can read pages and find information; a website

You can buy tickets directly from the company's site.
2

noun
a piece of land where something is built or where something happens

This would be a great site for the new stadium.
3

noun
the place where a particular event happened

Crowds gathered at the site of the accident.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a place on the internet... web site

2 noun · a piece of land where... land site

Word family

Forms sitedsitessiting

Derived forms antisiteautositebedsitebinsitebirdsitebirthsiteblogsitebombsitecampsitecamsitecross-sitedropsite

Related forms situate situation situs

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Phrases (1)

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internet site
a collection of related pages available at a particular address on the internet

Noun + noun

Etymology

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

site Middle English situs Latin

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Topics

Places & Geography

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# site

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /saɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 2010

## Meanings
1. a place on the internet where you can read pages and find information; a website
2. a piece of land where something is built or where something happens
3. the place where a particular event happened

## Examples
- You can buy tickets directly from the company's site.
- This would be a great site for the new stadium.
- Crowds gathered at the site of the accident.

## Derived Forms
- antisite
- autosite
- bedsite
- binsite
- birdsite
- birthsite
- blogsite
- bombsite
- campsite
- camsite
- cross-site
- dropsite

## Related Forms
- situate
- situation
- situs

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: site
- Root: situs

## Etymology
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

## AI Etymology
Site is from Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English site, xno site, Latin situs. In current use it includes senses such as a place on the internet where you can read pages and find information; a website and a piece of land where something is built or where something happens.

## Topics
- Places & Geography

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