Homepage

How to spell homepage

8 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce homepage

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What does homepage mean?

1. nounThe main introductory page of a website, serving as its starting point and navigation hub.

Homepage in a sentence

• The company logo links straight back to the homepage.

• She updated the homepage with the latest product photos.

Where does homepage come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a modern compound word, joining two old native English words for the language of computing. 'Home' descends from the Old English 'ham', meaning a dwelling or fixed place, while 'page' came into English from the Old French 'page', itself from the Latin 'pagina', which originally meant a column of writing or a fastened sheet. The two were stitched together in the early 1990s with the rise of the World Wide Web, where 'home' carried its computing sense of a starting point or base location, as in a keyboard's 'home' key. The result names the main introductory screen of a website, the place a visitor lands first and can return to as a base. Because both halves are familiar everyday words, the only real spelling question is whether to write it as one word, two words, or hyphenated; modern usage has settled firmly on the single closed form 'homepage'.

How the word is built

• home (dwelling, base)
• page (sheet, screen of a document)