portal

Meanings

Noun

• An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
• A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
• A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
• A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
• 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.
• The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
• A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Adjective

• Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• See jet bridge

Origin

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