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Synonyms for gate

Grammar : Noun
Spell : geyt
Phonetic Transcription : geɪt

Top 10 synonyms for gate
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Définition of gate

Origin :
  • "opening, entrance," Old English geat (plural geatu) "gate, door, opening, passage, hinged framework barrier," from Proto-Germanic *gatan (cf. Old Norse gat "opening, passage," Old Saxon gat "eye of a needle, hole," Old Frisian gat "hole, opening," Dutch gat "gap, hole, breach," German Gasse "street"), of unknown origin. Meaning "money collected from selling tickets" dates from 1896 (short for gate money, 1820). Gate-crasher is from 1927. Finnish katu, Lettish gatua "street" are Germanic loan-words.
  • noun movable barrier at entrance
Example sentences :
  • They arrived at the gate without question or hindrance; but found it fastened.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Over the gate was written in large letters, 'The Entrance of Mortals.'
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Only Ambrose was, at parting for the night, obliged to ask him for the key of the gate.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • Next day he called at the gate, on horseback, to inquire for mistress.
  • Extract from : « To be Read at Dusk » by Charles Dickens
  • But is there no gate because we find none on the edge of the wood where it seemed to lie?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • There were tables under the trees on the lawn, and a new sign on the gate.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A young girl is standing by a gate which opens on the street.
  • Extract from : « Apu Ollantay » by Anonymous
  • "Good-by, Miss Winship," he said, holding open the gate for me.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • Mrs. Bartlett marched her prisoners through the gate and up to the house.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
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