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say it: gayts
gates is a noun meaning "United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)". It is pronounced /ˈɡeɪts/ — gayts. It carries one recorded sense.
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gates come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.