Dictionary Entry
portal
portal is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
- 2noun
The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- 3noun
Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- 4noun
By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
- 5noun
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- 6noun
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- 7adjective
Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
- 8noun
a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)
"the portals of the cathedral"
"the portals of heaven"
- 9noun
a short vein that carries blood into the liver
- 10noun
a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet
"a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc."
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