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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The place where a structure or group of structures was, is, or is to be located: a good site for the school.
  2. n. The place or setting of something: a historic site; a job site.
  3. n. A website.
  4. v. To situate or locate on a site: sited the power plant by the river.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Sorrow; grief; misery; trouble.
  2. n. Sinfulness; sin.
  3. To grieve; mourn.
  4. n. Position, especially with reference to environment; situation; location.
  5. n. The ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located.
  6. n. Posture; attitude; pose.
  7. n. In fortification, the ground occupied by a work: also called plane of site.
  8. To select a site for; place; locate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete Sorrow, grief.
  2. n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
  3. n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
  4. n. The posture or position of a thing.
  5. n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  6. n. A website.
  7. v. architecture To situate or place a building.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
  2. n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
  3. n. rare The posture or position of a thing.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
  2. n. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
  3. n. physical position in relation to the surroundings
  4. v. assign a location to

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs ("position, place, site"), from sinere ("to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin situs; see situs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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