Site Meaning
/saɪt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
nounA place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
Sentence Examples
A man appeared at the site.
The committee picked the site for the exhibition.
The site of a sixteenth-century abbey
CEFR Practice Quiz
The construction crew arrived at the building ____ early in the morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The construction ____ was busy with workers and heavy machinery early in the morning.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long."
— 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, page 74:
"He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]"
— 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
"EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site."
— 2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments, American Bar Association, →ISBN, page 84:
"The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy."
— 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, page 192:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The construction crew arrived at the building ____ early in the morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The construction ____ was busy with workers and heavy machinery early in the morning.