home page

Noun

home page (plural home pages)

1. (Internet) 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.1992, Ed Krol, The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, page 240
2. 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.2001, Michael Miller, Using the Internet and Web, special edition, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 103
3. Someone's public personal home page/site on the World Wide Web.
   • My home page is www.example.com/~user.