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# gatekeeper

«gatekeeper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who looks after a gate and lets people in or out** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (gatekeepers)

### meaning for a pupil

A gatekeeper is a person who looks after a gate and lets people in or out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gatekeeper/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a guard at the gate of a castle, town or kingdom who decides who may pass

### examples

- The gatekeeper opened the big gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gatekeeper/#x1)
- You must ask the gatekeeper if you want to go in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gatekeeper/#x2)
- The gatekeeper let the travellers pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gatekeeper/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gatekeeper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gatekeeper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.