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Definition of Gatehouse
1. Noun. A house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence.
Definition of Gatehouse
1. n. A house connected or associated with a gate.
Definition of Gatehouse
1. Noun. A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall ¹
3. Noun. A shelter for a gatekeeper. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gatehouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatehouse
Literary usage of Gatehouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1836)
"This account of the gatehouse, given by John Stow in his first edition of ...
After a time, we find that another gatehouse, which led from King-street to ..."
2. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1902)
"DENT-DE-LION gatehouse, MARGATE. WITH A PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF PETTIT. ...
This fine early fifteenth-century gatehouse is all that now remains of what ..."
3. Circuit Journeys by Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1888)
"But it brightened up for about two and a half hours after leaving gatehouse; and
we had this gleam from gatehouse to Newton-Stewart, and through the wood, ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1906)
"The outer gatehouse in the precinct wall gave on to a small lane, on the east
side of which was the mill and at the north end the great gatehouse of the ..."
5. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1902)
"( ) DENT-DE-LION gatehouse, MARGATE. WITH A PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF PETTIT.
... This fine early fifteenth-century gatehouse is all that now remains of ..."
6. The Great House: A Story of Quiet Times by Stanley John Weyman (1919)
"When Mary, an hour before the world was astir on the morning after her arrival,
let herself out of the gatehouse, and from its threshold as from a ledge saw ..."
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