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home page

noun
/ˈhəʊmpeɪdʒ/UK/ˈhoʊmpeɪdʒ/US

Etymology

From home + page. First attested in 1992.

  1. derived from pagus
  2. derived from παιδίον
  3. derived from pagius
  4. derived from paggio
  5. derived from page
  6. formed as home page — “home + page”

Definitions

  1. The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.

    • Creating Your Own Home Page The home page provided by CERN is a good entry point into the Web; it points you to a lot of resources fairly quickly.

  2. The default page set to open in a web browser or hypertext system when it starts up, or…

    The default page set to open in a web browser or hypertext system when it starts up, or when its home function is invoked.

    • A computer virus kept changing my home page to a site full of adware.
    • When you first launch Netscape, it will load your predefined home page. To change Netscape's home page, select Edit, Preferences.

  3. Someone's public personal home page/site on the World Wide Web.

    • My home page is www.example.com/~user.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for home page. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA