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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SITE, n. [L. silus.]
1. Situation; local position; as the site of a city or of a house.
2. A seat or ground-plot; as a mill-site. But we usually say, mill-seat, by which we understand the place where a mill stands, or a place convenient for a mill.
3. The posture of a thing with respect of itself. The semblance of a lover fix'd in melancholy site. [This is improper.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, place, position, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French sit, site, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow Date: 14th century 1. a. the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b. a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building 2. a. the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event <a picnic site> <the crash site> b. one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others <an FTP site>; esp Web site II. transitive verb (sited; siting) Date: 15th century to place on a site or in position ; locate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. 1 the ground chosen or used for a town or building. 2 a place where some activity is or has been conducted (camping site; launching site). --v.tr. 1 locate or place. 2 provide with a site. Etymology: ME f. AF site or L situs local position

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Site Site, n. [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. Position.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sites, siting, sited) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A site is a piece of ground that is used for a particular purpose or where a particular thing happens. He became a hod carrier on a building site. ...a bat sanctuary with special nesting sites... N-COUNT: oft n N 2. The site of an important event is the place where it happened. Scientists have described the Aral sea as the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth... N-COUNT: usu the N of n 3. A site is a piece of ground where something such as a statue or building stands or used to stand. ...the site of Moses' tomb. N-COUNT 4. A site is the same as a website. N-COUNT 5. If something is sited in a particular place or position, it is put there or built there. He said chemical weapons had never been sited in Germany. ...a damp, old castle, romantically sited on a river estuary. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv, V-ed • siting ...controls on the siting of gas storage vessels. N-SING: usu the N of n 6. If someone or something is on site, they are in a particular area or group of buildings where people work, study, or stay. It is cheaper to have extra building work done when the builder is on site. PHRASE 7. If someone or something is off site, they are away from a particular area or group of buildings where people work, study, or stay. There is ample car parking off site. PHRASE

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Place, situation, locality, location, position, seat, station.

Moby Thesaurus

abode, agora, amphitheater, area, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bearings, bench mark, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, district, emplacement, field, floor, forum, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, haunt, hippodrome, hole, home, install, latitude and longitude, lieu, lists, locale, locality, locate, location, locus, marketplace, mat, milieu, mise-en-scene, open forum, orientation, palaestra, parade ground, pinpoint, pit, place, placement, plat, platform, plot, point, position, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, purlieus, put, range, region, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stamping ground, station, stead, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, where, whereabout, whereabouts, wrestling ring