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say it: WAW-tur-gayt
watergate is a noun meaning "a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974". It is pronounced /ˈwɔtɚˌɡeɪt/ — WAW-tur-gayt. It carries one recorded sense.
a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
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 watergate 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.