website

website — noun

1. a place on the internet that belongs to a person or group, where information, pi

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Definition

a place on the internet that belongs to a person or group, where information, pictures, or videos are available for people to look at

Example

Takeshi visits his favorite website every day after school.

visit a website

The school's website has information about classes and events.

school's website

Common collocations
  • visit a website
  • create a website
  • build a website
  • official website
  • company website
  • on a website
  • personal website
  • website content
Synonyms
  • site

    shortened form; very common in informal and neutral contexts, completely interchangeable

  • homepage

    different: this is the first or main page of a website, not the entire site

Grammar Patterns

website + of + [organization]

[adjective] + website

on + [possessive/determiner] + website

Usage Note

Countable noun. Use the preposition 'on' with website: 'on a website', 'on the website', 'on their website'. A website can contain many separate webpages.

Common Mistakes

There are many webpages on the internet.' (when meaning full sites)
There are many websites on the internet.
a website is the whole collection; a webpage is one single page within a website.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

A website is the complete collection of pages under one internet address. 'Site' is simply a shorter way of saying 'website' — the two are interchangeable in almost all situations. A 'webpage' (or 'web page') is a single page within a website; one website can have many webpages. A 'homepage' is the first page you see when you open a website, like a front door. For example: 'I visited the BBC news website' refers to the whole site, but 'I found the article on a webpage about climate change' means one specific page within it. Use 'website' when you mean the entire set of pages; use 'webpage' when you mean a single document within that set.

site ↗webpage ↗homepage ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

Phrases

  • visit a website
  • set up a website
  • launch a website
  • the website of [organization]

Prepositions

Etymology

EnglishEnglish

Formed in the early 1990s by combining 'web' (short for the World Wide Web, named after the interconnected structure that resembles a spider's web) and 'site' (meaning a place or location). So literally 'a place on the web.'