World Wide Web

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Usage notes 1.3 See also

English

Etymology

• From worldwide and web

Proper noun

the World Wide Web

1. An information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called uniform resource identifiers . Abbreviation: WWW

Synonyms

• the Web, the Internet (loosely)

Usage notes

• World Wide Web is a proper noun and each word is spelled with an initial capital.
• Although worldwide is a single word (sometimes hyphenated as "world-wide"), World Wide Web is spelled as three separate, hyphenated words.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the World Wide Web