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

There are men both good and wise who hold that, in a future state, Dumb creatures we have cherished here below Will give us joyous greeting as we pass the golden gate.

From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest

The rays of the setting sun lighted up the snowy whiteness of its marble walls, and gleamed from golden gate and tower and pinnacle.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love.—Beecher.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis

"The Golden Gate!" said wee Alice, in astonishment, "They don't really have a golden gate; do they?"

From Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Anderson, Mary E. (Mary Evarts)