gate

The word “gate” has 1 syllable: gate

It's pronounced as /ɡeɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for gate?

In the thesaurus, “gate” has 48 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for gate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gate

  • Dutch door
  • French door
  • access
  • bar
  • barricade
  • blockade
  • bolt
  • cock
  • conduit
  • dike
  • door
  • doorway
  • double door
  • egress
  • entrance
  • exit
  • faucet
  • fence
  • gateway
  • guard
  • hatch
  • hatchway
  • hedge
  • hydrant
  • issue
  • lattice
  • lock
  • obstruct
  • opening
  • passage
  • petcock
  • port
  • portal
  • portcullis
  • postern
  • revolving door
  • slammer
  • spigot
  • spout
  • stopcock
  • storm door
  • tap
  • trapdoor
  • turnstile
  • valve
  • way
  • weir
  • wicket

Antonyms for gate

Meanings of gate

  • noun
    1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
    2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
    3. Movable barrier.
    4. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
    5. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
    6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
    7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
    8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
    9. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
    10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
    11. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
    12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
    13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
    14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
    15. A way, path.
    16. A journey.
    17. A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
    18. Manner; gait.
  • verb
    1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
    2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
    3. To open a closed ion channel.
    4. To furnish with a gate.
    5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Example Sentences

  • The old wooden gate creaked as it opened.
  • We need to lock the gate before we leave for the day.
  • The security gate was manned by a guard at all times.
  • She stood at the gate waiting for her friend to arrive.
  • The gate to the garden was decorated with beautiful flowers.

On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gate, such as: Dutch door, French door, access, bar, barricade, blockade, bolt.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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