Home › Words › G › gatepersongatepersongateperson means A gatekeeper.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, gateperson ranks #26,403 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom gate + -person, after gateman.nounA gatekeeper.e.g.“In three years of operation, full-time staff positions were increased from 27 to 67 in 1977, supplemented by 275 part-time employees: stagehands, gatepersons, and security personnel.” — 1980, Richard M. Hodgetts; Max S. Wortman, Jr., “The Rainbow Civic Center”, in Administrative Policy: Text and Cases in Strategic Management (The Wiley Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).