GATEWAYS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

gateways

noun

plural of gateway

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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Relevance

as in doors

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

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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 The airline serves 12 major gateways in the United States, including New York (JFK), Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago O’Hare, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Francisco, Washington Dulles, Miami, Seattle/Tacoma, and Orlando. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026 Organizations should implement identity and access controls, apply policy enforcement layers and action restrictions, and use sandboxing and centralized gateways for all interactions. — Sumeet Agrawal, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Founders traditionally had to integrate various Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), negotiate with nationwide pharmacy fulfillment centers, build custom payment gateways, and establish strict HIPAA compliance. — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 July 2026 At the time, rates had been plummeting from their annual peak of nearly $6,000 that July, when mass diversions away from the Red Sea resulted in elevated congestion at some of the busiest gateways worldwide including the Ports of Singapore, Shanghai and Ningbo. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 25 June 2026 Amtrak has several routes that stop directly in cities that are gateways to some of the most popular national parks in the US. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 Airbnb specifically highlights Sevierville, Tennessee—the hometown of Dolly Parton and one of the gateways to Great Smoky Mountains National Park—as a destination worth adding to your summer radar. — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 31 May 2026

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Noun

There’s also the technical and organizational overhead of maintaining and supporting old versions and their associated keys indefinitely.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Being an 80% keyboard, the MQ80 has the exact same number as tenkeyless, but IQUNIX compresses the layout, shifting the arrow keys, delete, home, end, page up and page down and others to the right.

— Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

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Noun

Walking through the doors of Valkyrie Arms Training in Meridian, you are greeted by a large mural of 19th century women on the Western frontier, dressed in period gowns and gazing into the distance — and wielding firearms.

— Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 25 July 2026
Entertaining spaces spill outdoors via large sliding glass doors onto a covered patio and upper balcony, while a wine cellar offers a fitting place to unwind after a day on the links.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 July 2026

Definition of doors

Noun

Adults must crawl through doorways, buildings look like dollhouses and dwarf goats and donkeys hunker in the animal section.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Plus, cumbersome pieces can be difficult to navigate around doorways, corners, and stairwells, and disassembled furniture takes up less space in the moving truck.

— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026

Definition of doorways

Noun

Three entry points Visitors have three choices to enter the Okefenokee — the east, west and north entrances, each with its own public amenities and natural qualities.

— Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 25 July 2026
The city’s Historic Preservation Committee also recommended adding signs and monuments along Elk Grove Boulevard to mark entrances into the historic district, according to the staff report.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026

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Noun

At the gates into Ceuta, Moroccan authorities had deployed water cannon trucks and pushed people back.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
The team performed 2,415 logical two-qubit operations and 468 logical T gates, creating a circuit complex enough to challenge classical simulation methods.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026

Definition of gates

Noun

The spacious main compartment easily holds your essentials—like a phone, portable charger, and sunglasses—while the internal zip pocket and hidden back zip pocket keep important documents and passports secure.

— Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026
According to data provided by the organizers, the 13 stores gave out more than 2750 passports, and all 325 finisher tote bags (and more than 51 additional people finished and will be sent finisher prizes).

— Erik Pedersen, Daily News, 28 July 2026

Definition of passports

Noun

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
Book through various companies, such as Light Me Up Beach Bonfires, which will set you up at any of the nearby public beach accesses.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026

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