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GATEWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An entrance that can be closed by a gate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gateway" is a kind of...):
entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))
Context examples:
But that one dark glimpse of the river, through the gateway, had instinctively prepared me for her going no farther.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was leaning against a corner of the gateway.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He stooped to the fire, picked up a blazing branch, and slipped in an instant through a sallyport which he had made in our gateway.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he thundered forth his war-cry, the Jacks who had been gathering before the black arch of the gateway rushed in madly in a desperate effort to carry the staircase.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a main gateway of lichen-studded stone, each side pillar surmounted by mouldering heraldic emblems, but besides this central carriage drive I observed several points where there were gaps in the hedge and paths leading through them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Two-score archers stood about the gateway, and beat back from time to time with their bow-staves the inquisitive and chattering crowd who swarmed round the portal.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I pointed out the gateway, put my arm through his, and we went across.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
