website

See also: Website, web site, web-site, and Web site

English

Alternative forms

• web site, web-site, Web site, Website

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Latin situsder.

Anglo-Norman sitebor.

Middle English site

English site

English website

From web + site.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

website (plural websites)

2. (Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:website

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:website

   Meronym: webpage

   You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.

   He is playing a video game on the website.

Hyponyms

• blog
• dynamic site
• forum
• microblog
• mirror site
• porn site
• portal site
• search engine
• shock site
• single-serving site
• static site
• wiki

Derived terms

• website aggregator

Related terms

• intersite
• intrasite

Descendants

• → Car Nicobarese: vep sait
• → Czech: website f
• → Danish: website
• → Dutch: website
• → German: Website f
• → Japanese: ウェブサイト (webusaito)
• → Korean: 웹사이트 (wepsaiteu)
• → Malay: tapak web, tapak sesawang (calque)
• → Marathi: वेबसाईट (vebsāīṭ)
• → Persian: وب‌سایت (veb-sâyt)
• → Portuguese: website
• → Russian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt)
• → Spanish: website
• → Swedish: webbsajt
• → Ukrainian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt)

Translations

a collection of pages on the World Wide Web

• Afrikaans: webwerf (af)
• Albanian: vënd i rrjetës m
• Amharic: ዌብሳይት (websayt)
• Arabic: مَوْقِع وِيب m (mawqiʕ web)

  Algerian Arabic: سِيت m (sīt)

  Egyptian Arabic: لِينْك m (līnk)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܵܘܦܵܐ ܐܸܠܝܼܩܲܛܪܘܿܢܵܝܵܐ m (šāwpā ilīqaṭrōnāyā)

• Armenian: ցանցակայք (cʻancʻakaykʻ), վեբ կայքը (veb kaykʻə), կայք (hy) (kaykʻ)
• Azerbaijani: veb-sayt, sayt
• Basque: webgune
• Belarusian: вэб-са́йт m (veb-sájt), сайт m (sajt), вэб-старо́нка f (veb-starónka)
• Bengali: ওয়েবসাইট (bn) (ōẇebśaiṭ)
• Breton: lec'hienn
• Bulgarian: уе́бсайт (bg) m (uébsajt)
• Burmese: ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုဒ် (wakbhhcuid)
• Catalan: pàgina web (ca) f, lloc web (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 網站 / 网站 (mong⁵ zaam⁶)

  Hokkien: 網站 / 网站 (zh-min-nan) (bāng-chām)

  Mandarin: 網站 / 网站 (zh) (wǎngzhàn)

• Cornish: gwiasva f
• Czech: website f
• Danish: websted, hjemmeside (da), website n or c
• Dutch: website (nl) f or m, webstek (nl) m, site (nl) c
• Esperanto: retejo, TTT-ejo
• Estonian: veebisait (et)
• Finnish: verkkosivusto (fi), sivusto (fi), www-sivu, nettisivu (fi)
• French: site web (fr) m, site (fr) m, site Web (fr) m, site Internet (fr) m
• Galician: sitio web m
• Georgian: ვებსაიტი (vebsaiṭi)
• German: Website (de) f, Webangebot (de) n, Webauftritt m, Internetauftritt m, Webpräsenz f, Internetpräsenz f
• Greek: ιστότοπος (el) m (istótopos), ιστοχώρος (el) m (istochóros)
• Gujarati: જાળસ્થળ (jāḷsthaḷ)
• Hebrew: אֲתַר אִינְטֶרְנֶט (he) m (atár ínternet)
• Hindi: जालपृष्ठ m (jālpŕṣṭh), वेबसाइट f (vebsāiṭ), साइट f (sāiṭ), जालस्थल (hi) m (jālasthal)
• Hungarian: honlap (hu), webhely, weboldal (hu), weblap (hu)
• Icelandic: vefsetur (is) n, vefur (is) m
• Ido: retoloko
• Indonesian: situs web
• Interlingua: sito del web
• Irish: suíomh gréasáin m
• Italian: sito web (it) m, sito (it) m
• Japanese: ウェブサイト (ja) (webusaito), サイト (ja) (saito)
• Kapampangan: karinan-aptas
• Kazakh: веб-сайт (veb-sait), сайт (sait)
• Khmer: វិបសាយ (vɨp saay), ស្ថានបណ្ដាញ (sthaan bɑndaañ)
• Korean: 웹사이트 (wepsaiteu), 사이트 (ko) (saiteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: malper (ku), websîte (ku)

• Kyrgyz: веб-сайт (veb-sayt), сайт (ky) (sayt)
• Lao: ເວັບໄຊຕ໌ (wep sait)
• Latin: situs interrētiālis m
• Latvian: tīmekļa vietne f
• Lithuanian: internetinė svetainė f
• Macedonian: мре́жно ме́сто n (mréžno mésto), веб-сајт m (veb-sajt), сајт m (sajt), веб-стра́ница (mk) f (veb-stránica)
• Malagasy: vohikala (mg)
• Malay: tapak sesawang, laman sesawang, laman web, tapak web
• Malayalam: വെബ്സൈറ്റ് (vebsaiṟṟŭ), ജാലീസ്ഥാനിക (jālīsthānika), വെബ്സ്ഥാനം (vebsthānaṁ)
• Maltese: sit elettroniku m, sit m
• Māori: pae tukutuku
• Marathi: संकेतस्थळ n (saṅketasthaḷ), वेबसाईट (mr) f (vebsāīṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: вэб сайт (veb sajt)

• Navajo: níłchʼi naaltsoos, Béésh Łichíʼii biyiʼdóó ił Nahazʼą́ baa Haneʼ
• Nicobarese:

  Car Nicobarese: vep sait

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nettside m or f, hjemmeside m or f, heimeside m or f

  Nynorsk: nettside f, heimeside f

• Occitan: site web m
• Pannonian Rusyn: сайт m (sajt)
• Pashto: ويبځاى m
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: وِب‌گاه (veb-gâh), تارْنَما (târnamâ), پایْگاه (pâygâh)

• Polish: witryna (pl) f, strona WWW f, strona internetowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: sítio (pt) m, site (pt) m, website (pt) m, web site m, sítio web m, (Brazil) saite (pt) m, sítio na Internet m,
• Romanian: site (ro) n, site web n
• Russian: веб-са́йт (ru) m (vɛb-sájt), сайт (ru) m (sajt), веб-страни́ца (ru) f (vɛb-straníca), страни́ца интерне́та f (straníca intɛrnɛ́ta)
• Scots: wabsteid
• Scottish Gaelic: làrach-lìn f, ionad m, ionad eadar-lìn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: веб-локација m,веб-место m, веб-сајт m, веб-страница f

  Latin: web-lokacija m, web-mjesto m, web-sajt m, web-stranica f

• Sinhalese: වෙබ්-අඩවිය (web-aḍawiya)
• Slovak: website f, websídlo n, webové sídlo n, webová lokalita f, weblokalita f
• Slovene: spletna stran f, spletišče n
• Sotho: websaete
• Spanish: sitio web m, website (es), página web (es) f, web (es) f
• Swahili: tovuti (sw)
• Swedish: webbplats (sv), sajt (sv), webbsajt (sv), hemsida (sv)
• Tagalog: pahinarya, websayt
• Tajik: сомона (tg) (somona), сайт (sayt), вебгоҳ (vebgoh), торгоҳ (torgoh), веб-сайт (veb-sayt), торнамо (tornamo)
• Tamil: வலைத்தளம் (ta) (valaittaḷam)
• Thai: เว็บไซต์ (th) (wép-sái)
• Tigrinya: መርበብ መካን (märbäb mäkan)
• Tok Pisin: websait
• Tokelauan: kupega o te vateatea
• Turkish: Web sitesi (tr)
• Turkmen: websaýt
• Ukrainian: веб-са́йт (uk) m (veb-sájt), сайт (uk) m (sajt), веб-сторі́нка (uk) f (veb-storínka)
• Urdu: ویب سائِٹ f (veb sāiṭ), ویب گاہ (veb gāh)
• Uyghur: تور بېكەت (tor bëket), تور پونكىتى (tor ponkiti)
• Uzbek: vebsayt
• Vietnamese: trang web (vi), trang mạng (vi), trang thông tin điện tử
• Volapük: resodatoped
• Walloon: waibe (wa) f
• Welsh: gwefan (cy) m, safwe (cy)
• Yakut: уэбсайт (uebsayt)
• Yiddish: וועבזײַטל n (vebzaytl), וועבפּלאַץ m (vebplats)

Further reading

• website on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Latin situsder.

Anglo-Norman sitebor.

Middle English site

English site

English websiteubor.

Czech website

Unadapted borrowing from English website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛpsajt]

Noun

website f (indeclinable)

1. (Internet) website

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English web site, website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwɛb̥ˌsɑjd̥]

Noun

website n or c (singular definite websitet or websiten, plural indefinite websites, plural definite websitene)

1. web site [from 1995]

Synonyms

• hjemmeside
• site
• webside
• websted

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English web site, website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛp.sɑi̯t/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: web‧site

Noun

website m (plural websites, diminutive websiteje n)

1. web site

Synonyms

• internetsite
• site
• webstek

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• web site

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Latin situsder.

Anglo-Norman sitebor.

Middle English site

English site

English websiteubor.

Portuguese website

Unadapted borrowing from English website.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛ.biˈsaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˌwɛ.biˈsaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛ.biˈsaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˌwɛ.biˈsaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌwɛ.beˈsaj.te/ [ˌwɛ.beˈsaɪ̯.te]

• Rhymes: -ajt͡ʃi

Noun

website m (plural websites)

1. web site

   Synonyms: site, saite, sítio, sítio eletrónico

Further reading

• “website”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

Proto-Italic *sinō

Latin sinō

Latin situsder.

Anglo-Norman sitebor.

Middle English site

English site

English websiteubor.

Spanish website

Unadapted borrowing from English website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /webˈsait/ [weβ̞ˈsai̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -ait

Noun

website m (plural websites)

1. web site

Usage notes

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.