Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lodge at the entrance to the driveway of an estate.
- noun A fortified structure built over the gateway to a city or castle.
- noun A building that houses the controls of a dam or canal lock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house at a gate.
- noun A small house or lodge used by a person who attends the gate at a level crossing on a railroad.
- noun A house erected over the gate of a reservoir for regulating the flow of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house connected or associated with a gate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lodge besides theentrance to anestate ; often theresidence of agatekeeper ; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence. - noun archaic A
fortified room over the entrance to acastle or over thegate in a city wall - noun A shelter for a gatekeeper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
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Examples
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A picture of the Abbey gatehouse is above: all that remains of the old Abbey.
NHS in Wonderland? 2007
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Therefore, I called the gatehouse and left a message saying I wasn't coming in.
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A picture of the Abbey gatehouse is above: all that remains of the old Abbey.
Archive 2007-09-02 2007
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Therefore, I called the gatehouse and left a message saying I wasn't coming in.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Watts waited half an hour before he called the gatehouse again.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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Watts waited half an hour before he called the gatehouse again.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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I went inside it's "gatehouse" - where they have mail and stuff, but a garage-door like covering was over that area.
Planet Atheism 2008
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The gatehouse is a piece of early Victorian kitsch, a Swiss-style brick building clad with a wooden lattice of white crosses and dark timber rectangles, and a ridiculous but endearing balcony.
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The gatehouse was a garrison unto itself, with two dozen Reahn guards and passport inspectors checking papers, baskets and weapons.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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The scheme is being funded by the European Union and will see a contemporary building built within the ruins of the gatehouse, which is known as the Porter's Lodge.
chained_bear commented on the word gatehouse
In castle architecture, a strong multi-storeyed structure containing a fortified gate.
August 25, 2008