World Wide Web
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2.3
- noun
- /wɜrld waɪd wɛb/
- Texting
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web
- I'll be streaming the entire event live across the World Wide Web.
- World Wide Web site
- World Wide Web page
- World Wide Web resources
Then came computers and cell phones and the World Wide Web was cast around the world.
- Then came computers and cell phones and the World Wide Web was cast around the world.
- Chris Trump took a moment to include the World Wide Web in his future infrastructure plan.
- Well, the Internet, that's the great thing about, you know, the World Wide Web.
- And at the Science Center, both the Higgs boson particle was discovered and the World Wide Web was invented.
- And they do that exhaustively until they've absorbed the whole of the World Wide Web.
- And you know, the, the, the when, when, when the Internet came along for the first time, the main metaphor was the web, the World Wide Web.
- Number one, you're probably the smartest person on the World Wide Web to troll.
- Kylie, what is going on on the World Wide Web regarding I've Had It podcast?
- It appears to be a safe on ramp into the World Wide Web of crypto.
Examples
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We had some brochures produced professionally, and we also published some on the World Wide Web.
Academic text (1999) -
Many of these organizations have World Wide Web sites and other resources available on the Internet.
Academic text (1997) -
Yeah, people are going to buy wine on the World Wide Web, right?
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Today is really about where the World Wide Web has come from.
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Chris Trump took a moment to include the World Wide Web in his future infrastructure plan.
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The easy accessibility of the World Wide Web further provides opportunities for exposure and learning in different languages.
Academic text (2012) -
Rarely does a professional conference in any field not contain many demonstrations of World Wide Web resources.
Academic text (1995) -
The software should provide access to e-mail, the World Wide Web, newsgroups, and other resources.
Academic text (1990) -
A hands-on approach to the World Wide Web will help you develop your home page.
Academic text (1997) -
Many businesses have established a presence on the World Wide Web to reach customers globally.
Synonyms
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1.0
The system of linked pages and information on the internet
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3.1
A global system of linked pages you visit on the internet
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'web' (a network) modified by 'world wide' (global/broad in scope) yields a global network of linked resources, so the overall sense follows predictably from the constituents. This adjective + noun modification is cross-linguistically common, making the term immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
World Wide Web creates the picture of a web, like a spider's web, with threads reaching across the world. That picture of threads 'linking' things explains why it now means a system of 'linked' pages and sites you can visit on the Internet.