Crossword-Solution: PORTAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portal | n. | A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. |
| Portal | n. | The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. |
| Portal | n. | Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. |
| Portal | n. | 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. |
| Portal | n. | The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. |
| Portal | n. | A prayer book or breviary; a portass. |
| Portal | a. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PORTAL | anagram | PATROL |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PORTAL (5)
But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
The portal swung slowly in, and before it could be slammed against me I sprang into the chamber beyond.
Presently he came to the dark cavernous portal in the face of the Golden Cliffs, through which the river poured.
From it issued as strange a sight as Carthoris ever had witnessed, though at the moment he had time to cast but a single fleeting glance at the tall bowmen emerging through the portal behind their long, oval shields; to note their flowing auburn hair; and to realize that the growling things at their side were fierce Barsoomian lions.
Quotes with PORTAL (3)
He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.
Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt havoc and sangfroid. The intellectual capabilities of the excellent idiosyncratic talents of a man with an agog outlook for de minimis fringe entities had left the portal ajar for the enlightened few, to get a glimpse of the obsecure reality that most had decided to claim socratic ignorance to evade inquiries.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 69 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).