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GATEWAY TO THE WEST

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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

• GATEWAY TO THE WEST (noun)

Sense 1

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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; St. Louis; Saint 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; 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)

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