Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: site
IPA transcription: [s'aɪt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: site, land_site
    Meaning: the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
  • Synonyms: site, situation
    Meaning: physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: locate, place, site
    Meaning: assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
Usage examples
  • It is a good site for defense.
  • When he heard we had failed to get a site, he said:
  • "Here's what I found at the very site of that final shipwreck!"
  • The site of the city was once owned by a farmer whose name was Oman.
  • The Indians seemed glad to leave the "place of the bats," as they called the camp site.
  • On the third day they passed Mackenzie's farthest south--the site of the present Alexandria.
  • On going there to get a site for our home, though we looked for more than a week, we could find no place.
  • She also refuses to do so when, for reasons which I have not fathomed, the site chosen is some way up in the tuft of rosemary.
  • What else could this fragment be but the sole surviving remnant of some sumptuous mansion that once had stood on this unrivaled site?
  • I am a good leech, and I will give you the sight of the other eye.' The giant went and he drew the great caldron on the site of the fire.