portal
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
Example
“The local library, a portal of knowledge.”
Other meanings
A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
A or 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.”
A kind of
- entrance
Related words
- ePortal
- geoportal
- intraportal
- portlet
- Wikiportal
- antiportal
- captive portal
- hepatic portal vein
- megaportal
- porous portal
- portal hypertension
- portal rendering
Word history
From Medieval Latin "portāle".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “portal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.