portal
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- noun
- /ˈpɔrtəl/
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portal
- As I stepped through the ancient portal, I felt as though I was entering a new realm filled with possibilities.
- a cathedral portal
- a Gothic portal
- portal sculptures
It's a, it's a portal into something deeper.
- It's a, it's a portal into something deeper.
- And so one might even say that letting go is the portal to hopefulness.
- Yeah, I mean, it is a portal, and it's a portal into our being, our deepest being.
- They act as portals to the world and to ourselves.
- Stonehenge may may have been also a portal generator.
- She elected to open the portal that led to the Realm of Chaos.
- I ingest it and all of a sudden I seem like I've opened new portals into conscious experiences.
- The truth telling thing, we have the Subtle knife which opens up portals between worlds.
- So it was embraced by the culture like Fast and it and it's opening a portal right into hell.
- She ends up finding her portal, goes to the unsealy court, and it's a trap.
- There's a lot of talk about CERN trying to open up some type of a portal.
- And, and, and some of them, some pixels provide a portal into the consciousness, you know, and others don't.
- In other words, could we ever have a means of creating a dimensional portal?
- Well, the portal was closed by the time.
Examples
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The battered, beautiful wooden portal looked like Ghiberti's doors of paradise to me.
Fiction book (1992) -
Three streets led away from the portal, and Ceistan could find nothing to choose between them.
Fiction book (1992) -
The portal to The Above has been closed for your protection.
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Did we just drive through a time portal?
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The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world.
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But a curtain was drawn across the portal, blocking the view from the street.
Academic text (1998) -
Because what you're going to learn today is that there is a portal to a happier you.
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Turns out we'd just opened a portal to a totally new dimension.
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The exhibit opens via a neo-Gothic portal that takes visitors into the world of bats.
Academic text (1995) -
"A few minutes later, the broad portal opened and two men stepped into Nathan Gamble's private domain."
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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A thing in a wall, building or vehicle that opens so people can go in and out
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A door or opening that lets people go into a place
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An opening or door used to go into a building
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A space in a wall that is the entrance to a room or building
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An entrance you can close with a gate that leads into a place
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A large entrance hall in a building like a hotel or theater where people wait
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A small area inside a building next to the front door where people enter
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A space at the front of a building where people enter
A doorway that leads into a building or room
Antonyms
Compounds
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A short blood vessel that carries blood from the stomach and intestines to the liver
- Specialized
A short vein that carries blood from the stomach and intestines to the liver
- Specialized
A network of veins that carries blood from the stomach and intestines to the liver
- Specialized
A website that gives one login to access many services like email and courses
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
portal = port + al
The core meaning 'entrance' is historically 'porta' + '-al', but because modern English 'port' more commonly means 'harbor' the formal connection may not be fully obvious to learners without etymological knowledge.
Etymology
Portal comes from the Latin word porta, meaning 'gate' or 'door'. A building's portal is a grand or beautiful 'door', and by image it can also mean an entrance to a new idea or experience.