English Explanatory Dictionary

portal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
  2. A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
  3. A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
  4. An ePortal. (a web-based platform that serves as a gateway to various resources, services, or information, usually tailored for specific organizational or user needs.)
  5. The existence of an account on an ePortal.
  6. A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
  7. A magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension.
  8. A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
  9. Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
  10. A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
  11. The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
  12. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
adj
  1. Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
verb
  1. To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
name
  1. A place in the United States:
  2. An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
  3. A ghost town in California.
  4. A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
  5. An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
  6. A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
  7. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɔːtl̩/ /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/ [ˈpʰɔːɹɾɫ̩] en-us-portal.ogg

Word forms

portal portals portaling portalling portaled portalled

Etymology

From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

Related words

porch port porthole

Derived words

antiportal captive portal ePortal geoportal hepatic portal vein intraportal megaportal porous portal portalable portal hypertension portalisation portalization portal rendering portal site portal-to-portal portal venous portlet Providence Portal teleportal vortal Wikiportal arterioportal biportal hepatoportal mesentericoportal nonportal periportal portal triad portal vein portoportal uniportal

Translations

Bulgarian: порта́л Esperanto: portalo Esperanto: enirejo Finnish: portti Finnish: portaali French: portail Georgian: პორტალი German: Portal Hindi: प्रवेशमार्ग Indonesian: portal Italian: portale Korean: 입구 Korean: 포털 Persian: درگاه Persian: پورتال Polish: portal Portuguese: portal Spanish: portada Spanish: portal Spanish: ciberportal Spanish: portal web Vietnamese: cổng Belarusian: парта́л Chinese Mandarin: 門戶網站 /门户网站 Czech: portál Dutch: portaal Greek: πύλη Hungarian: portál Icelandic: vefgátt Irish: tairseach Japanese: ポータル Kazakh: портал Russian: порта́л Turkish: portal Ukrainian: порта́л
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