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A place made official by the fact someone bothered to fence it off.

means A particular place or location, especially one set aside for a specific purpose like building, digging, or hosting a website.

from From Latin 'situs' meaning 'position' or 'location' — the past participle of 'sinere,' to leave or let lie. It passed through Old French 'site' into English, originally describing where a building stood or where a town was positioned, long before it wandered online to mark where a webpage sits in the digital sprawl.

etymology
from Latin situs, meaning position
construction use
a plot before it becomes a building
web use
real estate with no zoning laws
archaeology use
where the past gets excavated politely
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