home page

See also: homepage

English

Alternative forms

• Home page, homepage

Etymology

From home +‎ page. First attested in 1992.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊmpeɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊmpeɪdʒ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

home page (plural home pages)

2. (Internet) The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.
   • 1992, Ed Krol, The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, page 240:

     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.

3. 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.

   • 2001, Michael Miller, Using the Internet and Web, special edition, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 103:

     When you first launch Netscape, it will load your predefined home page. To change Netscape's home page, select Edit, Preferences.

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

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

Synonyms

• start page
• main page
• front page

Translations

main or first page of a website

• Afrikaans: tuisblad
• Arabic: صَفْحَة رَئِيسِيَّة f (ṣafḥa(t) raʔīsiyya)
• Armenian: սկզբնական էջ (skzbnakan ēǰ), սկիզբ (hy) (skizb)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pàgina d'inici
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主頁 / 主页 (zh) (zhǔyè), 首頁 / 首页 (zh) (shǒuyè), 起始頁 / 起始页 (qǐshǐyè)

• Czech: hlavní stránka f
• Danish: hjemmeside (da) c
• Dutch: homepage (nl), startpagina (nl), hoofdpagina (nl)
• Esperanto: hejmpaĝo
• Estonian: koduleht, kodulehekülg, esileht (et), esilehekülg
• Faroese: heimasíða f
• Finnish: etusivu (fi)
• French: page d’accueil (fr) f, accueil (fr) m, index (fr) m, page de démarrage f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Startseite (de) f, Homepage (de) f,, Hauptseite (de) f
• Greek: αρχική σελίδα f (archikí selída)
• Gujarati: મુખપૃષ્ઠ (gu) (mukhpŕṣṭh)
• Hindi: मुख पृष्ठ (mukh pŕṣṭh), मुखपृष्ठ (hi) (mukhpŕṣṭh), होम पेज (hom pej)
• Hungarian: honlap (hu), kezdőlap (hu), főoldal (hu)
• Icelandic: heimasíða f
• Ido: hemopagino
• Inari Sami: päikkisijđo
• Indonesian: beranda (id), laman (id)
• Irish: leathanach baile m
• Italian: pagina iniziale f, portale (it) m
• Japanese: ホームページ (ja) (hōmupēji)
• Khmer: ទំព័រដើម (km) (tom por derm)
• Korean: 홈페이지 (ko) (hompeiji), 홈페지 (hompeji) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماڵپەر (mallper)

  Northern Kurdish: malper (ku)

• Macedonian: почетна страница (početna stranica)
• Malay: laman utama
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: haukāinga
• Marathi: मुख्यपृष्ठ (mukhyapŕṣṭha)
• Navajo: bighanii
• Nepali: मुख्य पृष्ठ (ne) (mukhya pr̥ṣṭha)
• Norman: page d'siez-mé f
• Norwegian: hovedside (no) m or f, startside m or f

  Bokmål: hjemmeside m or f, heimeside m or f

  Nynorsk: heimeside f

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: صفحه خانگی (safhe-ye xânegi), صفحه اصلی (fa) (safhe-ye asli), برگه نخست (barge-ye noxost)
• Polish: strona główna
• Portuguese: página principal f, página inicial (pt) f, página de início f, página de entrada f, home page (pt) f
• Romanian: pagină principală f
• Russian: дома́шняя страни́ца (ru) f (domášnjaja straníca), гла́вная страни́ца f (glávnaja straníca), ста́ртовая страни́ца f (stártovaja straníca), заглавная страница (ru) f (zaglavnaja stranica)
• Scottish Gaelic: prìomh-dhuilleag f
• Serbo-Croatian: početna stranica c, naslovna stranica c, naslovnica (sh) c
• Skolt Sami: dommseidd
• Slovak: domáca stránka f
• Spanish: página de inicio f, página principal, portada (es) f
• Swahili: ukurasa wa nyumbani
• Swedish: förstasida (sv) c, hemsida (sv) c, huvudsida (sv) c, ingångssida (sv) c, startsida (sv) c
• Telugu: హోం పేజీ (hōṁ pējī), హోం (hōṁ)
• Thai: โฮมเพจ (hoom-pèet), หน้าแรก (nâa-rɛ̂ɛk)
• Turkish: ana sahife, ana sayfa (tr)
• Ukrainian: дома́шня сторі́нка f (domášnja storínka), голо́вна сторі́нка (uk) f (holóvna storínka), ста́ртова сторі́нка f (stártova storínka)
• Urdu: صفحۂ اوّل (ur) (ṣafḥah-e-avval), پہلا صفحہ (pehlā ṣafḥah), سرورق (sarvaraq)
• Vietnamese: trang chủ, trang đầu, trang nhà, trang chính (張正), trang nhất
• Welsh: hafan (cy) f
• Zhuang: yiebdaeuz

web page set to open in a web browser

• Afrikaans: tuisblad
• Arabic: صَفْحَة رَئِيسِيَّة f (ṣafḥa(t) raʔīsiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主頁 / 主页 (zh) (zhǔyè), 首頁 / 首页 (zh) (shǒuyè), 起始頁 / 起始页 (qǐshǐyè)

• Czech: domovská stránka (cs) f
• Finnish: kotisivu (fi)
• French: page d’accueil (fr) f, page de démarrage f
• German: Homepage (de) f, Startseite (de) f
• Indonesian: beranda (id), halaman awal
• Irish: leathanach baile m
• Italian: pagina iniziale f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماڵپەر (mallper)

  Northern Kurdish: malper (ku)

• Macedonian: почетна страница (početna stranica)
• Norman: page d'siez-mé f
• Norwegian: hjemmeside m or f, startside m or f
• Persian: صفحه خانگی (safhe-ye xânegi)
• Polish: strona startowa, strona początkowa
• Portuguese: home page (pt) f
• Romanian: pagină de pornire f
• Russian: ста́ртовая страни́ца f (stártovaja straníca)
• Serbo-Croatian: početna stranica c, polazna stranica c
• Swedish: startsida (sv) c, hemsida (sv) c
• Turkish: ana sahife, ana sayfa (tr)
• Vietnamese: trang nhà, trang đầu

public personal home page

• Finnish: kotisivu (fi)

See also

• landing page

Further reading

• home page on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

home page f (plural home pages)

1. home page (the main page of a web site)
2. home page (the web page set to open when a web browser is loaded)