Synonyms:
portal
Meaning: a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); "the portals of the cathedral"; "the portals of heaven"; "the portals of success"
Usage examples
Wallace took the sword, and turned to meet Murray with Edwin in the portal.
We now went on until we reached the central portal of the range of caverns, and here we stopped.
There was less of a crowd about now, and Mulligan did not have to keep back a rush as he opened the portal.
He went by the nearest road, and passing through the streets of the city, came before the portal of the castle.
The eagles dashed themselves against the iron portal, beating their wings upon it, and imploring Death to open it to them.
The scene was upon the semicircular terrace in front of the cavern, and we were seated upon a stone platform beside the chief portal.
She did not see me at first, but just as she was disappearing through the portal of the building which was to be her prison she turned, and her eyes met mine.
By the aid of a sort of luminous dusk he distinguished at first a semicircle of walls indented by winding stairs; and opposite to him, at the top of five or six stone steps, a sort of black portal, opening into an immense corridor, whose first arches only were visible from below.
This pillar, which had once graced the portal of a pagan temple, again became a place of pious pilgrimage, and people flocked to Simeon's rock, so that they might be near when he stretched out his black, bony hands to the East, and the spirit of Almighty God, for a space, hovered close around.
Deeming her a weak, quiet old creature, Berwin, in spite of his suspicious nature, entrusted Mrs. Kebby with the key of the front door, so that she could enter for her morning's work without disturbing him. The sitting-room door itself was not always locked, but Berwin usually bolted the portal of his bedroom, and had invariably to rise and admit Mrs. Kebby with his breakfast.