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# portal

«portal» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large, grand doorway or entrance to a building** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a portal, portals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large, grand doorway or entrance to a building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#m1)

2) (stories, games) A magic doorway that takes you to another world or place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#m2)

3) (computing) A website that is the starting point for using a service, such as a school login page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and games, portals take characters to other worlds (as in Narnia's wardrobe, or Minecraft's Nether portal). At school, children use a parent portal or learning portal to log in. In history and art, cathedral portals have carved stone arches.

### examples

- The cathedral's portal was carved with saints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x1)
- In the game, we built a portal to another world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x2)
- The wardrobe was like a portal to Narnia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x3)
- Mum checked my homework on the school portal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x4)
- Log in to the portal with your username and password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x5)
- The stone portal was covered in ivy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x6)
- Suddenly little Gerda stepped through the great portal into the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/#x7)

### note

Countable. Online safety: only type your password into the real school portal, and never share your login.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «portal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.