portal
Syllables: por·talUK/ˈpɔːtl̩//ˈpɔːɹtl̩/
portal noun: an entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
Noun
portal (plural portals)
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it...2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, pages 48–49
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
- 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.)
- I have already inputted my info on the portal.
- The existence of an account on an ePortal.
- You need to have a portal to have a driver's license.
- A short artery that carries blood into the liver.
- A magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension.
- Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.2020 April 3, Arundhati Roy, “The pandemic is a portal”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC
- A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.
- A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.
Adjective
portal (not comparable)
Verb
portal (third-person singular simple present portals, present participle (US) portaling or (UK) portalling, simple past and past participle (US) portaled or (UK) portalled)
- To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
Proper noun capitalized: Portal
Portal
- An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
- A ghost town in California.
- A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
- A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
- A surname.
portal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
portal in Hindi
- entry point
- प्रवेशमार्ग praveśmārg
portal in Tamil
- வலைவாசல்
portal in Marathi
- पोर्टल, पोर्टलिंग, पोर्टेलिंग
portal in Urdu
- باب, مدخل
More languagesFewer languages
- portal in Bengali
- দ্বার, দরজা, প্রবেশপথ, দ্বারদেশ
- portal in Telugu
- పోర్టల్, పోర్టలింగ్, పోర్ట్లింగ్
- portal in Malayalam
- പ്രവേശിക, വാതിൽ, പ്രവേശനദ്വാരം
- portal in Kannada
- ಮಹಾದ್ವಾರ, ಹೆಬ್ಬಾಗಿಲು, ಪ್ರವೇಶದ್ವಾರ, ಕದ
- portal in Punjabi
- ਪੋਰਟਲ, ਪੋਰਟਲਿੰਗ, ਪੋਰਟਾਲਿੰਗ
- portal in Gujarati
- પોર્ટલ, પોર્ટાલ, પોર્ટલિંગ
- portal in Odia
- ପୋର୍ଟାଲ, ପୋର୍ଟାଲ୍, ପୋର୍ଟାଲିଂ
- portal in Nepali
- पोर्टल, पोर्टाल, पोर्टलिङ
- portal in Indonesian
- portal
- portal in Vietnamese
- cổng
Examples of portal in a sentence
- Known as 'porous portals', they will (as the name suggests) be punctuated with holes.
- A data journalist from the Financial Times obtained data from the EU data portal.
- The spiritual connection to our tūpuna also exists in certain portals of communication with them.
Forms of portal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | portals |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | portals |
| present participle US | portaling |
| present participle UK | portalling |
| past participle US | portaled |
| past US | portaled |
| past participle UK | portalled |
| past UK | portalled |
Origin of portal
From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.
Words formed from portal
- arterioportal
- biportal
- hepatoportal
- mesentericoportal
- nonportal
- periportal
- portal triad
- portal vein
- portoportal
- uniportal
- 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
Phrases with portal
Words that rhyme with portal
Questions about portal
- What does portal mean?
- Portal means an entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- What is portal in Hindi?
- Portal in Hindi is प्रवेशमार्ग (praveśmārg). See Portal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is portal?
- Portal can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce portal?
- Portal is pronounced /ˈpɔːtl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of portal?
- The plural of portal is portals.
Words near portal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: portal (page history and authors); Portal (page history and authors); portal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portal (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); portal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portal (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); portal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); portal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); portal (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); portal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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