Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Site (-s)
sit (sat, -s, sitting)situate (-ed, -s)
site (-s), n. [L. situs, place, position.]
- Location; [fig.] reality; existence.
- Seat; ground-plot; local position; place on earth; area upon which something is located.
- Point; pole; orientation.
- State of being; [possible word play with the obsolete noun “site” < ON sĂșt, sorrow, distress, grief] desolation; loneliness.
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