English Explanatory Dictionary

World Wide Web

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version (HTTPS), among others.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɜːld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/ /ˈwɝld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/ En-us-World-Wide-Web.ogg

Word forms

World Wide Web

Etymology

From worldwide + web. Coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau in a paper published on 12 November 1990 (see quotations below).

Synonyms

Web W3 WWW

Related words

Web 2.0 Web 3.0

Derived words

Wood Wide Web
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