gatehouse.

A building forming or guarding an entrance, especially to a large estate or fortified place.

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Words that belong together

• fortified gatehouse
• lodge gatehouse

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The gatehouse contained two small rooms above the arch.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular gatehouse; plural gatehouses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.