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- [sahyt]
- /saɪt/
- /saɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sahyt]
- /saɪt/
Definitions of sited word
- noun sited the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin. 1
- noun sited the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located: the site of ancient Troy. 1
- noun sited Computers. website. 1
- verb with object sited to place in or provide with a site; locate. 1
- verb with object sited to put in position for operation, as artillery: to site a cannon. 1
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Origin of sited
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English < Latin situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action
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Parts of speech for Sited
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sited popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 56% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
sited usage trend in Literature
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adj sited
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
noun sited
- camped — If people are camped or camped out somewhere in the open air, they are living, staying, or waiting there, often in tents.
- homed — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.