GATEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gateway mean? 

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

1. an entrance that can be closed by a gate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GATEWAY (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 

Twice during the morning there came bands of horsemen swooping down upon them from the black gateways of wayside strongholds, with short, stern questions as to whence they came and what their errand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Early in the morning, I sauntered through the dear old tranquil streets, and again mingled with the shadows of the venerable gateways and churches.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he fell into a silence that lasted till we entered my own gateway.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It stole slowly round the camp, and then halted near our gateway.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A web site (http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/) which acts as NCI's online gateway to clinical trials resources.

(CancerTrials, NCI Thesaurus)

Behind one of these clumps I took up my position, so as to command both the gateway of the Hall and a long stretch of the road upon either side.

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

At the end of fifteen minutes, the carriage swung in through a stone gateway and on between a double row of arched and interlacing walnut trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad gateway.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The good news is that the new moon on March 24 in Aries 20 degrees will be the gateway to your desire to scale the corporate heights.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“In heavy drinkers, we saw less regional power for example in the thalamus, the sensory gateway, and frontal cortex of the brain, which is important for decision making,” said Dr. Shokri-Kojori of the NIAAA Laboratory of Neuroimaging.

(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)