Toile d'araignée mondiale

French edit

Etymology edit

Calque of English World Wide Web.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /twal d‿a.ʁɛ.ɲe mɔ̃.djal/, /twal d‿a.ʁe.ɲe mɔ̃.djal/

Proper noun edit

Toile d’araignée mondiale f

  1. (dated, computing) the World Wide Web

Usage notes edit

A direct translation of World Wide Web that fell so out of use in the 21st century that it has been removed from dictionaries.
However, la Toile is still a popular term for the Web as of 2023.