Gate

A gate is a place between two parts of a wall, or a fence which could be opened and closed to let people go through it.

In the Middle Ages, a city gate also allowed people to go into a (walled) city.

Nowadays, people also talk about gates at airports. When going on an aircraft, people need to get together in a certain area of the airport first. They then pass through some kind of doorway to get onto the plane. That is what is called gate.

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  A typical gate in a garden or park.

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  Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence.

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  Gates to official residences often feature elaborate ironwork.

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  Port Gate in Szczecin, Poland

Gate Media

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  Gate from Bucharest (Romania)

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  Art Nouveau gate of Castel Béranger (Paris)

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  Candi bentar, a typical Indonesian gate that is often found on the islands of Java and Bali

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  Japanese Torii at Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Japan, where the Hindu goddess Saraswati is worshipped as the Buddhist-Shinto goddess Benzaiten

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  Shankharacharya,Gate,Birgunj, is main entry Point of Nepal from India

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  This gate and massive gateposts has no locks—a gate marks a borderline in ownership/use and can allow passage.

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  Wringin Lawang, a 14th-century Majapahit split gate, called "Candi bentar", in Trowulan, Java, Indonesia

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  Richly decorated Indonesian Balinese temple gate called Paduraksa