gateless

English

Etymology

From gate +‎ -less.

Adjective

gateless (not comparable)

1. Without a gate.
   • 1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:

     The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used.

   • 2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.

2. (by extension) Boundless; unrestricted.
   • 2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBN:

     First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty.

   • 2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN:

     We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.

   • 2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 278:

     He had assumed he would always be independent and gateless.

Translations

without a gate

• Greek: ἀπύλωτος (apúlōtos)