- 1[usually plural] (formal or literary) a large impressive gate or entrance to a building The castle's portals have opened to many famous guests.
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- 2(computing) a Web site that is used as a point of entry to the Internet, where information has been collected that will be useful to a person interested in particular kinds of things a business/news/shopping portal
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