site
NOUN:
1. the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
the site of our summer cabin.
2. the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located:
the site of ancient Troy.
3. the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located:
a building site; archaeological site.
(as modifier):
site office.
4. the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (such as a building, town, or monuments).
5. a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building.
6. the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event:
a picnic site.
in medicine:
a place; a location.
of computers:
1. (especially) website.
2. an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed.
3. one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others:
an FTP site.
Examples:
Hard hats must be worn on the construction site; They visited the site of their future house. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action. Dictionary 2: C14: from Latin situs situation, from sinere to be placed. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 15th century. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English, place, position, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French sit, site, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
the site of our summer cabin.
2. the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located:
the site of ancient Troy.
3. the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located:
a building site; archaeological site.
(as modifier):
site office.
4. the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (such as a building, town, or monuments).
5. a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building.
6. the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event:
a picnic site.
in medicine:
a place; a location.
of computers:
1. (especially) website.
2. an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed.
3. one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others:
an FTP site.
Examples:
Hard hats must be worn on the construction site; They visited the site of their future house. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action. Dictionary 2: C14: from Latin situs situation, from sinere to be placed. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 15th century. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English, place, position, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French sit, site, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.