means A collection of related pages, text, images, and links accessible over the internet under a single domain.

from A literal mash-up of two parts: 'web,' short for the World Wide Web (the tangled, threaded structure of linked documents Tim Berners-Lee dreamed up around 1989, named for its spider-web sprawl), and 'site,' from Latin 'situs' meaning 'position' or 'a place where something stands' — the same root behind 'situate.' So a website is, quite plainly, 'a place on the web,' a digital plot of land staked out among the threads.