gateless en · ADJ
Etymology
From gate + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a gate.
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: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 Times:
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(broadly, not-comparable) Boundless; unrestricted.
We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.
2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN:He had assumed he would always be independent and gateless.
2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 278: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, →ISBN:
Deriveds
Translations (1)
grc ἀπύλωτος (without a gate)