web dev

A form of web development — The work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet.

Meanings

nounweb dev (countable and uncountable, plural web devs)

plural web devs · alternative webdev

  1. abbreviationclippinguncountableClipping of web development.
  2. abbreviationclippingcountableClipping of web developer.

    Now hiring web devs, designers, illustrators, artists, etc. to volunteer for our #globalprteam.

    2012, Robert McHale with Eric Garulay, Navigating Social Media Legal Risks: Safeguarding Your Business, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publishing, Pearson Education, Inc., →ISBN, page 153
    2 more examples

    Thank you to the many web devs who have generously shared their knowledge with me, both directly and without even realising it.

    2012, Oli Studholme, “Acknowledgments”, in Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy, Divya Manian, Beginning HTML5 and CSS3, Apress, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page xviii

    Here, a range of leading web devs share their advice from an accumulated century of hard won experience to help you improve your web building abilities.

    2013, Tom May, editor, The Ultimate Guide to Web Design, Bath: Future Publishing, →ISBN, page 7

Synonyms & antonyms

Cite this entry
APA

web dev. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web%20dev

MLA

“web dev.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web%20dev. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “web dev,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/web%20dev.

Source: web dev on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.