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Meaning of Portal | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈpɔːtl̩

Definitions

  1. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
  4. A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
  5. A ghost town in California.
  6. A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
  7. A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
  8. An ePortal. (a web-based platform that serves as a gateway to various resources, services, or information, usually tailored for specific organizational or user needs.)
  9. An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
  10. The existence of an account on an ePortal.
  11. A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
  12. A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
  13. A surname.
  14. A magical or technological aperture leading to another location; period in time or dimension.
  15. A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
  16. Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
  17. A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
  18. The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
  19. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
  20. The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.
  21. A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.

Equivalents

Čeština portál
Deutsch Portal
Ελληνικά πύλη πυλώνας
Esperanto pordego
فارسی درگاه
Suomi portaali
Français Portal portal portique veine porte
Galego pórtico
עברית שער
Bahasa Indonesia portal
Italiano portale portone
日本語 ポータル 正門
한국어 정문 포털
Kurdî portal
Latina aditus iānua ostium porta pylae valvae
Nederlands portaal
Português porta portal veia porta
Русский портал
Српски porta portal портал
Українська портал

Examples

“The local library, a portal of knowledge.”
“Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.”
“The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.”
“I have already inputted my info on the portal.”
“You need to have a portal to have a driver's license.”
“Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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