"WWW" meaning in English

See WWW in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈdʌ.bəl.juː ˈdʌ.bəl.juː ˈdʌ.bəl.juː/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdʌ.bjə ˈdʌ.bjə ˈdʌ.bjə/ [Southern-US], /ˈdʌb ˈdʌb ˈdʌb/ [General-American, New-Zealand] (note: variant or rapid speech in US), [dʌ.ɥʊ̆.dʌ.ɥʊ̆.dʌ.bˡju] [UK] (note: variant or rapid speech) Audio: en-uk-WWW.ogg , en-us-www-1.ogg , en-us-www-2.ogg , en-US-dub dub dub.ogg , en-uk-dubydubydublyoo.ogg
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} WWW
  1. Initialism of World Wide Web. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: World Wide Web Derived forms: WWW page Translations (World Wide Web (abbreviation)): 萬維網 /万维网 (wànwéiwǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), TTT (Esperanto), www (Finnish), WWW [masculine] (French), WWW (Indonesian), TTT (Latin), TAW (Tukutuku Ao Whānui) (Maori), WWW [feminine] (Polish), WWW [feminine] (Portuguese)
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