webpage

webpage — noun

1. a single page of writing, pictures, or video that you can see on the internet th

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Definition

a single page of writing, pictures, or video that you can see on the internet through a browser, usually one of many pages that together form a website

Example

Haruto checked the school's webpage every morning for news about his classes.

possessive: [institution]'s webpage

When you click on the blue link, a new webpage opens in your browser.

when-clause for describing conditions

Common collocations
  • visit a webpage
  • open a webpage
  • load a webpage
  • home webpage
  • official webpage
  • personal webpage
  • webpage address
  • webpage content
Synonyms
  • page

    shorter, everyday term — 'page' is used in casual speech far more often than 'webpage'

  • web page

    the spaced variant of the same word, still common in older or formal writing

  • site page

    used mainly by web developers to refer to a single document within a site

Usage Note

Used as a countable noun — you can say 'a webpage', 'two webpages', 'the webpage'. In older writing you may see it as two separate words ('web page'), but the one-word form is now standard.

Common Mistakes

I visited a webpage for the whole company.
I visited a website for the whole company.
A 'webpage' is one single page; a 'website' is the complete collection of pages owned by one person or organisation.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

'Webpage' refers to a single document on the internet — one screenful of content. A 'website' is the entire collection of related webpages under one domain name (e.g., the whole of wikipedia.org). 'Homepage' is the main or front page of a website — the one visitors see first. In everyday conversation, many English speakers shorten 'webpage' to just 'page' ('I saved that page to my favourites'). Choose 'webpage' when you need to be clear that you mean one individual page rather than the whole site: 'The webpage for tomorrow's bus schedule wouldn't load, but the rest of the website worked fine.'

webpage ↗website ↗homepage ↗page ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

Etymology

LatinEnglishEnglish

Webpage is a modern compound word formed from 'web' (short for World Wide Web) and 'page' (from the Latin 'pagina', meaning a leaf of a book or a sheet for writing). The term was first used in the early 1990s, around the time the World Wide Web became public, and it compared each screen of online content to a page in a physical book.