Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lodge at the entrance to the driveway of an estate.
- n. A fortified structure built over the gateway to a city or castle.
- n. A building that houses the controls of a dam or canal lock.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house at a gate. A porter's lodge or house at the entrance to the grounds of a mansion, institution, etc.
- n. A small house or lodge used by a person who attends the gate at a level crossing on a railroad.
- n. A house erected over the gate of a reservoir for regulating the flow of water.
Wiktionary
- n. A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
- n. A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
- n. A shelter for a gatekeeper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A house connected or associated with a gate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
Examples
“Therefore, I called the gatehouse and left a message saying I wasn't coming in.”
“A picture of the Abbey gatehouse is above: all that remains of the old Abbey.”
“Watts waited half an hour before he called the gatehouse again.”
A Gift From Earth
“I went inside it's "gatehouse" - where they have mail and stuff, but a garage-door like covering was over that area.”
“The gatehouse is a piece of early Victorian kitsch, a Swiss-style brick building clad with a wooden lattice of white crosses and dark timber rectangles, and a ridiculous but endearing balcony.”
“The gatehouse was a garrison unto itself, with two dozen Reahn guards and passport inspectors checking papers, baskets and weapons.”
“The scheme is being funded by the European Union and will see a contemporary building built within the ruins of the gatehouse, which is known as the Porter's Lodge.”
“But the charabanc and then the wagons kept going, and that was when the word "gatehouse" connected in her mind with the house at the gate, and she stared at it in awe, realizing that here was a house just for a man and his family to live in so he could tend the gate.”
The Wizard Of London
“Betwixt a kind of gatehouse to right and left we entered an enclosure where stood the temple itself, reared upon terraces.”
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chained_bear In castle architecture, a strong multi-storeyed structure containing a fortified gate. Aug 25, 2008