anothergates

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adjective

Of a different kind or sort.

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Meanings

adjectiveanothergates (not comparable)

alternative anotherguess · alternative anotherguise · alternative anothergaines · alternative anotherkins

  1. not comparableobsoleteOf a different kind or sort.

    When Hudibras, about to enter Upon anothergates adventure.

    1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
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    If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas.

    1580, Sir Phillip Sidney, Arcadia

    If we be of the spiritualty, there would be in us anothergates manifestation of the Spirit than is ordinarily to be found in the temporalty.

    1619, Robert Sanderson, Ad Clerum

    and by consequence must exclude the Rays of the Sun in anotherguess manner than before.

    1696, William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth

Origin

Likely from another + gate (“way, path, journey”) + -s (“possessive suffix”)

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APA

anothergates. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anothergates

MLA

“anothergates.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anothergates. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anothergates,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anothergates.

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