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stairgates

stairgates is the plural 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

Questions about stairgates

What is stairgates the plural of?
Stairgates is the plural of stairgate.

Words near stairgates in the dictionary

  1. stairfoot
  2. stairfoots
  3. stairful
  4. stairfuls
  5. stairgate
  6. stairgates
  7. stairhall
  8. stairhalls
  9. stairhead
  10. stairheads
  11. stairkes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stairgates (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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