| English Dictionary |
GATEWAY TO THE WEST
| IPA (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does Gateway to the West mean?
• GATEWAY TO THE WEST (noun)
The noun GATEWAY TO THE WEST has 1 sense:
1. the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
Familiarity information: GATEWAY TO THE WEST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Gateway to the West; Saint Louis; St. Louis
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Gateway to the West" is a part of...):
Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"It is more becoming to have a large nose than two small ones" (Breton proverb)
"I see I forget. I hear I remember. I do I understand." (Chinese proverb)
"A good deed is worth gold." (Dutch proverb)