## Meanings
1. A door-like barrier in a fence or wall that can be opened and closed.
2. A numbered exit at an airport where passengers board a plane.
3. A movable barrier that controls entry or passage.

## Examples
- He pushed open the garden gate and walked up to the house.
- Our flight is now boarding at gate 12.
- The gate at the railway crossing lifted once the train had passed.

## Derived Forms
- agate
- aldgate
- algate
- ambergate
- backgate
- beast-gate
- bishopsgate
- burragate
- churchgate
- clergate
- corpse-gate
- degate

## Related Forms
- gates

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gate
- Root: ġeat
- Root: *gat
- Root: *gatą

## Etymology
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

## AI Etymology
Gate comes from Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt. In current use, the main senses are “A door-like barrier in a fence or wall that can be opened and closed” and “A numbered exit at an airport where passengers board a plane”.

## Topics
- House & Home
- Transportation

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