gateways

noun

plural of gateway
1
as in keys
something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal hopefully, my college degree will be a gateway to a high-paying job

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2
as in doors
the means or right of entering or participating in Denver is the gateway to the West

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3
as in doorways
the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure there are security checkpoints at all of the stadium's gateways

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Recent Examples of gateways In those environments, adding more access points, gateways or cabling can significantly increase cost and complexity. — Michael De Nil, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026 Cargo on ships that have diverted away from the Hormuz is backing up at the region’s alternative gateways. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 As one of the principal gateways into the Saudi capital and a foundation stone of the entire Vision 2030 project, the Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport directly threaten the Kingdom’s strategy. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 Migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa regularly attempt to cross the border fences around Ceuta and Melilla, seeing the Spanish cities as gateways to mainland Europe. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 The channel is one of the most crucial gateways for moving oil and gas out of the Gulf region. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 The airline serves five gateways in the United States, including Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Ontario in California. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026 Many newcomers are bypassing traditional gateways for smaller cities and suburbs, drawn to emerging enclaves from Cincinnati and Knoxville to Utah’s booming communities, even as Florida remains the top destination for some nationalities. — Will Jarrett, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 The safety protections established for the central business district should also be available to historic residential communities, neighborhood gateways, school approaches and park corridors when comparable safety problems exist. — Lawrence Bell, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gateways
  1. keys
  2. doors
  3. doorways
  4. tickets
  5. entrances
  6. gates
  7. passports
  8. accesses
Noun
  • The typing experience exceeded my expectations; the Chiclet-style keys are addictively clicky and responsive.
    — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Lakers guard Austin Reaves said keeping bodies on Antetokounmpo and Adebayo was among Monday night’s keys.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • The backstory The first Mandarin Oriental hotel—then called The Mandarin—opened its doors in Hong Kong in 1963 and has remained central to the hotel group’s core values, despite global expansion.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Red lacquered doors open to 6,000 square feet of stylish interiors, with eight bedrooms and six full bathrooms spread throughout.
    — Demetrius Simms for Robb Report, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of doors
Noun
  • The new clinic will feature doorways 42 to 48 inches wide, well beyond the 36-inch minimum the Americans With Disabilities Act requires.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Many migrants who remained in Ceuta have sheltered in Muslim neighborhoods, sleeping on streets, in doorways and in makeshift tent camps and centers run by NGOs and locals.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of doorways
Noun
  • Loveland Ski Area In honor of 60 years of snowmaking, the ski area offered $60 lift tickets.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • More than 300,000 other tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $10 to $30,000 in the drawing, the lottery said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of tickets
Noun
  • All four spiral slides are open to the public and allow four people to ride simultaneously from various entrances such as the family-style restaurants, the Google offices, the Rosewood Hotel, and the Arte Abierto Art Space.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Con Edison trucks also blocked nearby roads by entrances at spots where NYPD vehicles would usually stand sentry.
    — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of entrances
Noun
  • Control computers then re-aim the microwave pulses to match that frequency before running logic gates.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Tucked behind tall gates and hedges, the contemporary-style build, designed by Jae Omar, spans nearly 15,000 square feet.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of gates
Noun
  • Investigators found a video showing a customer boarding a plane in Havana bound for Fort Lauderdale, along with messages celebrating arrivals on the Cancun-Fort Lauderdale route and photographs of passports and airline tickets.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • He was ordered to turn over his passports before leaving Brazil with his family for the United States on Tuesday.
    — Mauricio Savarese, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of passports
Noun
  • Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time).
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of accesses

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“Gateways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gateways. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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