Golden Gate

American  

noun

1. a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.

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Golden Gate British  

noun

1. a strait between the Pacific and San Francisco Bay: crossed by the Golden Gate Bridge, with a central span of 1280 m (4200 ft)

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Example Sentences

"Additionally, San Francisco Bay is a highly trafficked waterway, and the Golden Gate Strait serves as a bottleneck through which all traffic and whales must enter and exit."

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Any faint hopes of reviving horse racing in Northern California were crushed with the sale of Golden Gate Fields, which will be converted into a park.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Then, because of a lack of horses and other byproducts of the closure of Golden Gate Fields, the fairs in the north all stopped offering fair racing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

We bike five minutes to our hospital, 11 minutes to church and 30 minutes to the Bay, Ocean Beach or Golden Gate Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

How many times would I be this high up and have a sight as spectacular as the Golden Gate Bridge right underneath me?

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia