gateway to the west

1. 1.

   the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century

   SynonymsSaint LouisSt. Louis

   Broadercityport

   Part ofMissouri

Questions about gateway to the west

What does gateway to the west mean?

gateway to the west means "the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century".

What is another word for gateway to the west?

Close synonyms include Saint Louis, St. Louis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gateway to the west a common word?

gateway to the west is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.