See gatekeep on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for gatekeep meaning in All languages combined (5.7kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "gatekeeper"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "gate-keepy"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gate",
"3": "keep"
},
"expansion": "gate + keep",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gatekeeper",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation from gatekeeper",
"name": "back-formation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gatekeeps",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekeeping",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekept",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekept",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gatekeeps",
"2": "gatekeeping",
"3": "gatekept"
},
"expansion": "gatekeep (third-person singular simple present gatekeeps, present participle gatekeeping, simple past and past participle gatekept)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "no true Scotsman fallacy"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To control or limit access to something."
],
"id": "en-gatekeep-en-verb-41SfgtAu",
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"access",
"access"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sociology",
"orig": "en:Sociology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "16 18 43 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 17 50 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task."
],
"id": "en-gatekeep-en-verb-lFnpRwow",
"links": [
[
"sociology",
"sociology"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"manipulatively",
"manipulatively"
],
[
"directly",
"directly"
],
[
"role",
"role"
],
[
"spouse",
"spouse"
],
[
"task",
"task"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"sciences",
"social-science",
"sociology"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "6 58 36",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "porteirar"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness."
],
"id": "en-gatekeep-en-verb-AJCyRCEm",
"links": [
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"participation",
"participation"
],
[
"collective",
"collective"
],
[
"identity",
"identity"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"undue",
"undue"
],
[
"pettiness",
"pettiness"
],
[
"resentment",
"resentment"
],
[
"overprotectiveness",
"overprotectiveness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg/En-au-gatekeep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gate-keep"
}
],
"word": "gatekeep"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gate",
"3": "keep"
},
"expansion": "gate + keep",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gatekeeper",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation from gatekeeper",
"name": "back-formation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gatekeeps",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gatekeep (plural gatekeeps)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1949, Laverne Gay, Wine of Ssatan a Novel of the First Crusade, page 129",
"text": "Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind \"her husband's\" broad back.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Donald M. Hines, Dust Devils in the Great Desert",
"text": "A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Maggie Osborne, Chase the Heart, page 278",
"text": "Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jeannie Troll, A Clever Girl",
"text": "“At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gatekeeper."
],
"id": "en-gatekeep-en-noun-X-LyVMVp",
"links": [
[
"gatekeeper",
"gatekeeper"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "porteirador"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "porteiradora"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "porteiradore"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg/En-au-gatekeep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gate-keep"
}
],
"word": "gatekeep"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English back-formations",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "gatekeeper"
},
{
"word": "gate-keepy"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gate",
"3": "keep"
},
"expansion": "gate + keep",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gatekeeper",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation from gatekeeper",
"name": "back-formation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gatekeeps",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekeeping",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekept",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gatekept",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gatekeeps",
"2": "gatekeeping",
"3": "gatekept"
},
"expansion": "gatekeep (third-person singular simple present gatekeeps, present participle gatekeeping, simple past and past participle gatekept)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "no true Scotsman fallacy"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To control or limit access to something."
],
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"access",
"access"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Sociology"
],
"glosses": [
"To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task."
],
"links": [
[
"sociology",
"sociology"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"manipulatively",
"manipulatively"
],
[
"directly",
"directly"
],
[
"role",
"role"
],
[
"spouse",
"spouse"
],
[
"task",
"task"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"sciences",
"social-science",
"sociology"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness."
],
"links": [
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"participation",
"participation"
],
[
"collective",
"collective"
],
[
"identity",
"identity"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"undue",
"undue"
],
[
"pettiness",
"pettiness"
],
[
"resentment",
"resentment"
],
[
"overprotectiveness",
"overprotectiveness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg/En-au-gatekeep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gate-keep"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "porteirar"
}
],
"word": "gatekeep"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English back-formations",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gate",
"3": "keep"
},
"expansion": "gate + keep",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gatekeeper",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation from gatekeeper",
"name": "back-formation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gatekeeps",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gatekeep (plural gatekeeps)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1949, Laverne Gay, Wine of Ssatan a Novel of the First Crusade, page 129",
"text": "Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind \"her husband's\" broad back.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Donald M. Hines, Dust Devils in the Great Desert",
"text": "A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Maggie Osborne, Chase the Heart, page 278",
"text": "Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jeannie Troll, A Clever Girl",
"text": "“At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gatekeeper."
],
"links": [
[
"gatekeeper",
"gatekeeper"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg/En-au-gatekeep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/En-au-gatekeep.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gate-keep"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "porteirador"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "porteiradora"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "porteiradore"
}
],
"word": "gatekeep"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.