home page

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

home page
    n 1: the opening page of a web site [syn: {home page},
         {homepage}]

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

home page
 n.

   1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web. The term `home
   page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and
   physical homes in {RL} are private, but home pages are designed to be
   very public.

   2. By extension, a WWW repository for information and links related to
   a project or organization. Compare {home box}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

home page

   <World-Wide Web> 1. The top-level entry point {web page}
   relating to an individual or institution, or possibly a
   subject area.  This often has a {URL} consisting of just a
   hostname, e.g. http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/.  All other pages
   on a {website} are usually accessible by following {links}
   from the home page.

   2. The {web page} a user's {web browser} is configured to load
   each time it is started.  This will typically default to the
   {home page} (sense 1) of the organisation that produced or
   distributed the browser.

   (1999-03-21)