homepage

IPA/hˈəʊmpeɪdʒ/
KK[hˈompˌedʒ]IPA/hˈoʊmpˌeɪdʒ/

homepage — noun

1. the first page that appears when you visit a website, often showing the name of

1.nounA2
Definition

the first page that appears when you visit a website, often showing the name of the site, a navigation menu, and links to other areas of the site

Example

Christopher checks the company homepage every morning for new announcements.

check + homepage (common verb collocation)

The homepage of the Haruki family restaurant shows photos of their daily lunch specials.

homepage of [organisation] for describing ownership

Common collocations
  • visit a homepage
  • homepage loads
  • homepage displays
  • homepage design
  • homepage link
  • return to the homepage
Synonyms
  • landing page

    can refer to any first-arrival page, not necessarily the main page of the whole site; often used in marketing contexts

  • front page

    more common for newspapers and printed media; less natural for websites

Common Mistakes

Please visit our home page (two words).
Please visit our homepage.
While 'home page' is still seen, the single-word form 'homepage' is now standard in modern English.

Word family

  • home page
    nounA2

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

Homepage, landing page, and front page all refer to an initial or main page, but they differ in domain and specificity. Homepage is the standard term for the main entry page of a website — it is what users expect when they type a domain name. Landing page is a marketing term for any page a visitor first arrives at, often designed for a specific campaign; it may be the homepage but often is not. Front page belongs to print and news media — a newspaper's front page or a magazine's cover — and sounds old-fashioned when applied to websites. For example: 'The company redesigned its homepage last month' sounds natural, but 'Please visit our front page' would confuse most web users.

Common collocations

Nouns

  • homepage URL
  • homepage layout
  • homepage content
  • homepage button

Phrases

  • return to the homepage
  • link to the homepage
  • homepage of a website

Prepositions

  • on the homepage
  • from the homepage
  • to the homepage

Etymology

Old EnglishLatinEnglish

Homepage is a compound word formed from home (Old English hām, 'dwelling place') and page (from Latin pagina, 'a sheet of writing'). The term entered English in the mid-1990s alongside the public launch of the World Wide Web, originally referring to the personal start page of an individual or organisation on the internet.