Gate Meaning
/ˈɡeɪ̯t/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA doorlike structure outside a house.
nounA doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Sentence Examples
The Golden Gate Bridge is made of iron.
How long is the Golden Gate Bridge?
please! Passengers for flight KL412 are requested to go to gate 21 immediately.
CEFR Practice Quiz
They entered the large field through the old wooden ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please remember to close the ____ when you leave the garden to prevent the dog from running out onto the street.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace."
— 1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
"Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies."
— 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:
"After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away."
— 2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
"It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion."
— 1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:
"Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate."
— 2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
They entered the large field through the old wooden ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please remember to close the ____ when you leave the garden to prevent the dog from running out onto the street.