site

Noun

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
3. The posture or position of a thing.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
5. (Internet) A website.
6. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

Verb

To situate or place a building or construction project.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: site

In summary

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.

Synonyms

place

location

spot

position

situation

area

plot

venue

scene

locate

website

locality

lot

seat

💺

room

region

station

🚉

point

web site

section

market

locale

land site

situate

field

locus

premises

capacity

internet site

sacred place

job site

whereabouts

building site

building lot

job

stead

rank

ground

post

parcel

construction site

class

lie

abode

status

emplacement

emplace

embed

edge

burst

Translations

sitio

sito

site

luogo

lieu

Platz

sítio

lugar

local

lugar

endroit

Lage

miejsce

Ort

posto

Sentences

Wildlife on the site includes slow worms .

Two salvage excavations took place on the site .

Behind it is the site of the former 'Fawdon Park House' Housing Project .

The range's western flank is the site of a series of now-semi-abandoned mining towns .

No recreational or visitors' amenities are available at the historic site .