noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
UK:/ˈɡeɪtˌkiː.pə/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
General-American:/ˈɡeɪtˌki.pɚ/
General-American:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
CMU ARPABET:G EY1 T K IY2 P ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 2
A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 3
A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 4
In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Meaning 5
One who gatekeeps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 6
A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract