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Synonyms for gates

Grammar : Noun
Spell : geyts
Phonetic Transcription : geɪts

Top 10 synonyms for gates
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Définition of gates

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 :
  • Ask the poor fisherman at the gates, who has been to him as a brother; and he will answer 'Anaxagoras.'
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • The lower classes of tradesmen were generally placed near the gates.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • And while he slept the gates were closing and barring the way.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The gates stand open, and there are three thousand of them within the walls.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The gates were closed, and not a man was to be seen on the battlements.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • Your efforts will not prevail; for our gates shall for ever deny you admittance.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone » by John Filson
  • "Sit here 'til the gates is open," he added, as he sat down.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • He watched the light disappear from the little windows at the top of the gates!
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • And now his purgatory was at an end, and of a sudden the gates of joy were open.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Now the stones are fallen; its towers are broken; its gates are open.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
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