newgate

1. 1.

   a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902

   Broaderprison

   Part ofLondon

Other forms of newgate

plural

newgates·

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.

Questions about newgate

What does newgate mean?

newgate means "a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902".

How many syllables are in newgate?

newgate has 2 syllables: new-gate. The stress falls on "new". In IPA it is /ˈnuɡeɪt/.

Is newgate a common word?

newgate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.