Source : WordNet®

database
     n : an organized body of related information

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

database
     
        1.  One or more large structured sets of persistent
        data, usually associated with software to update and {query}
        the data.  A simple database might be a single file containing
        many {records}, each of which contains the same set of
        {fields} where each field is a certain fixed width.
     
        A database is one component of a {database management system}.
     
        See also {ANSI/SPARC Architecture}, {atomic}, {blob}, {data
        definition language}, {deductive database}, {distributed
        database}, {fourth generation language}, {functional
        database}, {object-oriented database}, {relational database}.
     
        {Carol E. Brown's tutorial
        (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/)}.
     
        2.  A collection of {nodes} managed and stored in
        one place and all accessible via the same {server}.  {Links}
        outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
     
        On the {World-Wide Web} this is called a {web site}.
     
        3. All the facts and rules comprising a {logic programming}
        program.
     
        (2002-02-09)