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back gate

back gate noun: the gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.

Noun

back gate (plural back gates)

  1. The gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.
    • All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC
    • On Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down from the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book 2, Chapter III

Forms of back gate

pluralback gates

Questions about back gate

What does back gate mean?
Back gate means the gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.
What part of speech is back gate?
Back gate is a noun.
What is the plural of back gate?
The plural of back gate is back gates.

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