golden gate

1. 1.

   a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake

   Broaderstrait

   Part ofCalifornia

Questions about golden gate

What does golden gate mean?

golden gate means "a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake".

Is golden gate a common word?

golden gate 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.