Meanings
- not comparableWithout a gate.
Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.
2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times1 more example
The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used.
1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 208 - broadlynot comparableBoundless; unrestricted.
He had assumed he would always be independent and gateless.
2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 2782 more examples
First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty.
2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBNWe're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.
2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀπύλωτος
- ἀπύλωτος (apúlōtos)without a gate
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