Gates

From gate. A topographic name for someone who lived by the gates of a medieval walled town.

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪts/
• Homophones: gaits, gates

Gates (countable and uncountable, plural Gateses)

1. A topographic surname.
   • 2020 August 7, Jason Murdock, “Zuckerberg Becomes Centibillionaire after Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Instagram Reels Launches”, in Newsweek‎:

     With TikTok's future now increasingly unclear, and Facebook reporting a stronger than expected performance in Q2, Zuckerberg is now a centibillionaire, joining Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in the $100 billion club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

2. A placename.
   1. A rural community of British Columbia, Canada.
   2. An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
   3. A town in New York, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States.
   5. A city in Oregon, United States.
   6. A town in Tennessee, United States.
   7. Ellipsis of Gates County.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gates”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21.

• Geats, Stage, agest, e-tags, geats, getas, stage

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Gates

1. genitive singular of Gate
2. plural of Gate

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaː.teːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.tes/,

Gātēs m pl (genitive Gātium); third declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Aquitania mentioned by Caesar

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.