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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

home page

1. Do the following mean the same thing?
(a) homepage
(b) URL
(c) website
(g) webpage
2. Do you spell 'home page' or 'homepage'?
Thank you.
  

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Homepage or home page: The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner. Webpage: any page of a website. URL ( uniform resource locator): the address of a web page on the world wide web.

— Mister Micawber

  • Homepage or home page: The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.
  • Webpage: any page of a website.
  • URL ( uniform resource locator): the address of a web page on the world wide web.
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Homepage or home page: The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.

Webpage: any page of a website.

URL ( uniform resource locator): the address of a web page on the world wide web.
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Maybe I'm being pedantic but, as an English native, i prefer "web site" and "web page". Unlike the German language, English doesn't lend itself to compound words. That is to say, they don't "look" right.

However, these compound words appear to be used exclusively in American.
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