site Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
    land site.
    • a good site for the school
  2. noun physical position in relation to the surroundings
    situation.
    • the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides
  3. noun a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
    web site; website; internet site.
    • the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers
  4. verb assign a location to
    locate; place.
    • The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles

WordNet

Site noun
Etymology
L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. Position.
Definitions
  1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer.
  2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
  3. The posture or position of a thing. R.
    The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site. Thomson.

Webster 1913