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stair gate

stair gate is the alternative form of stairgate.

Meaning of stairgate

Noun

stairgate (plural stairgates)

  1. A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
    • Perhaps she has to buy a new stairgate, fireguard, or fit in a lamp. This may be a big dip in her purse, but in this financial comparison it is trivial.1979, Brian Jackson, Sonia Jackson, Childminder: A Study in Action Research
    Synonyms:
    baby gate

Forms of stair gate

pluralstair gates

Questions about stair gate

What is stair gate the alternative form of?
Stair gate is the alternative form of stairgate.

Words near stair gate in the dictionary

  1. Staintondale
  2. stainy
  3. staio
  4. staios
  5. stair
  6. stair gate
  7. stair gates
  8. stair glider
  9. stair gliders
  10. stair hall
  11. stair halls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stair gate (page history and authors); stairgate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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