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Gate City

Gate City proper noun: a town, the county seat of Scott County, Virginia, United States.

Proper noun

Gate City

  1. A town, the county seat of Scott County, Virginia, United States.

Origin of Gate City

The town was described as the "Gate Way to the West" when it received this name in 1886. It had two other names prior to this.

Questions about Gate City

What does Gate City mean?
Gate City means a town, the county seat of Scott County, Virginia, United States.
What part of speech is Gate City?
Gate City is a proper noun.

Words near Gate City in the dictionary

  1. gate
  2. gate array
  3. gate arrays
  4. gate box
  5. gate boxes
  6. Gate City
  7. gate crash
  8. gate crashed
  9. gate crasher
  10. gate crashers
  11. gate crashes

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