gatesian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
adj
Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Example Sentences
- "The central critique of the applicability of Gatesian revisionism for a narrative of African American women's literary tradition was framed by Hortense Spillers in 1985..."
- "In a Gatesian sense, Naylor signifies on Cane in her work..."
- "Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history..."
- "...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision."
- "Friends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach..."
- "The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Gatesian (comparative)
most Gatesian (superlative)