foregate
noun
foregate is a noun meaning “A main entrance or front gate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-G-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foregate is foregates.
What does foregate mean?
noun
- 1
A main entrance or front gate.
… and, where the nature of the thing admitteth access, there is first a foregate and a wall furnished with turrets, which enclose four or five acres, …
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foregate
- foregates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foregate?
Foregate appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foregate come from?
From Middle English foregate, forgate, equivalent to fore- + gate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).