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portal
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A portal is an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, especially a grand entrance to an important structure. Doors, metal gates , or portcullis in the opening can be used to control entry or exit. The surface surrounding the opening may ...
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Population (2000): 597 Housing Units (2000): 254 Land area (2000): 1.740192 sq. miles (4.507077 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.034770 sq. miles (0.090053 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.774962 sq. miles (4.597130 sq. km) FIPS code: 62216 Located within: Georgia ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "gate, gateway," from Old French portal "gate" (Modern French portail ) and directly from Medieval Latin portale "city gate, porch," from neuter of portalis (adj.) "of a gate," from Latin porta "gate" (see port (n.1)).
Usage examples of portal.
Burt Britten noticed as he crossed the south portals onto the House floor was that Tommy Langston had nodded off at his desk again.
The portal creaked inward and faces peered out, sallow in the glow of cheap tallow dips, or brosy with drink and primed to proffer lewd comment.
The Market seemed to be bustling, carts full of flowers and vegetables being pushed through the portals, customers coming and going.
Sumantra followed the guru in, then turned to see Mantri Jabali still standing outside the portal.
Niallan murmured, touching his shoulder in reassurance as they changed places on the Portal square.
Chapter Four: THE HALL OF PRIEST-KINGS As I followed the man who called himself Parp down the stone passage the portal behind me closed.
In his other hand the barbarian held Aegis-fang ready, not wanting to swing through the planar portal but hoping for something more vulnerable than an arm to come through to his world.
Apparently the glassy image of the planar portal had been more than just an image.
No wolf, for a year past, has been heard to bark, or known to range among the dwellings, except that single one, whose grisly head, with a plash of blood beneath it, is now affixed to the portal of the meeting-house.
The entrance to this temple is through a magnificent propylon, that is, a portal flanked by massy pyramidal moles.
The portal before which the pyrotic had stood so long, so many hours, gazing so deep into inverspace.
The portal before which the pyrotic had stood so long, so many hours, gazing so deeply into inverspace.
The portal swung wider, making loud protest in the still night, and Ramonda motioned them in.
Tweet recrowned himself with his new Stetson, turned, and strolled impressively toward his tent, disappearing between its lazily flapping portals.
Both Fidelma and Eadulf turned together as an elderly religieuse paused on the portal.