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gated

gated

23 4.1
Has a closed entrance that only chosen people can enter
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡeɪtɪd/
translation icon : cerrado
  • The new apartment complex is a secure gated community with a guard at the entrance.
  • gated community

But we saw this spot, Hell's Gate, and it's a double gated off spot.

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Examples

  • It's a gated community.

  • Driving into the gated neighborhood where Palmer lives.

  • Peter, my husband and myself moved in with them and they were, you know, in a secure, gated home.

  • Find yourself a nice little gated complex.

  • I mean, it's a gated community.

  • Lives out in the suburbs, in one of those gated communities.

  • I'm glad I just moved into a gated community and paid cash for my house.

    Blog text (4)
  • Smoke Tree Ranch off the side of Palm Springs, which is a a gated community created by Walt Disney and some of his pals way back when.

  • The February newsletter for the gated subdivision also addressed the rash of burglaries in the neighborhood.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Marvin pulls up to a gated estate sporting expansive grounds and a hotel-sized main building.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

closed
vsgated
16 1.3

Not open to the public and limited to certain people

is restricted by a physical barrier that allows controlled entry
to walled
vsgated
4.1

To build a wall around something to protect or separate it

permits selected people to enter through a controlled opening

Antonyms

1.0

Not closed so people or things can go through

24 4.1

Free from limits and control, it allows people to use or access

How Restricted

fortified
5.1
gated
23 4.1
open
579 1.0

Surface Forms

gated positive

Morphology

gated = gate (transparent) = gate + ed

Formed by a standard adjectival/perfect participle suffix '-ed' meaning 'having or provided with a gate', so the meaning is directly derived from 'gate'.

Etymology

Gated comes from gate, which originally meant 'door' or 'opening' in Old English, so a gated place is one closed by a gate to protect or limit who can enter.