GATES

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• GATES (noun)
  The noun GATES has 1 sense:

1. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)

  Familiarity information: GATES used as a noun is very rare.

• GATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates

Instance hypernyms:

computer scientist (a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers)

enterpriser; entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)

 Context examples 

I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Here are strangers," said the Guardian of the Gates to him, "and they demand to see the Great Oz."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A double carriage-sweep, with a snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates which closed the entrance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Not more than two miles to the Hall gates. That’s the road to the left.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had loved poetry for beauty's sake; but since he met her the gates to the vast field of love-poetry had been opened wide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sore was his heart when he saw rare bowmen and war-hardened spearmen turned away from his gates, for the lack of the money which might equip and pay them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All I can do is to watch the house and leave my agent, Warner, on guard at the gates.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)