Home directory
FILE SYSTEM DIRECTORY ON A MULTI-USER OPERATING SYSTEM CONTAINING FILES FOR A GIVEN USER OF THE SYSTEM; LOCATED AT \USERS\ IN WINDOWS 7 AND ABOVE; AT /USERS/ IN MACOS; AND AT /HOME/ IN LINUX OR BSD
Home folder; /home; /~; ~/; Documents and Settings; Homedir; Home dir; Hd (command)
A home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) are defined by the operating system involved; for example, Linux / BSD (FHS) systems use /home/ and Windows systems between 2000 and Server 2003 keep home directories in a folder called Documents and Settings.