Word Meaning

Meaning of portal

- A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
- The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- 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.
- The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- 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.

Crossword clue for portal

- A door
- Gateway
- Imposing entrance
- Magnificent doorway
- mexican porch