Word Meanings - SPORTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SPORTAL)

• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SPORTSMAN
  One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
• SPORTSMANSHIP
  The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach