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

California opened its golden gate to major league baseball on this date when the transplanted Dodgers and Giants played the first game of the 1958 season at Seals Stadium in San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020

She would come and tell him—shut the golden gate forever.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Through the golden gate of the ear have gone what noble truths, companying together what messengers of affection, what sweet friendships.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

And Millar poet of Sierras, For bold deeds he doth prepare us, And now he lives by the golden gate, Honored in California's state, To poet 'tis position grand, Commissioner of Forest land.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James

What marvel that the untutored heart beat faster than its wont, when that golden gate of paradise was opened in expectation to her eyes?

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry