Watergate

Watergate

See also: watergate and water gate

English

Etymology

From the name of the Watergate Hotel; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.[1]

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑtəɹˌɡeɪt/

Proper noun

Watergate

1. An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.

Derived terms

• -gate
• Watergate salad

Translations

scandal

Arabic: ووتر غيت‎ m (wuatar ghit) Chinese: Mandarin: 水門事件／水门事件 (Shuǐmén shìjiàn) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: Watergate, Watergate-skandaali French: Watergate m German: Watergate (de), Watergate-Affäre (de) f, Watergate-Skandal m Hindi: वॉटरगेट m (vŏṭargeṭ) Indonesian: Watergate Japanese: ウォーターゲート事件 (ウォーターゲートじけん, Wōtāgēto jiken), ウォーターゲート (Wōtāgēto) Korean: 워터게이트 사건 (Woteogeiteu sageon) Malay: Watergate Portuguese: Watergate m Russian: Уотерге́йтский сканда́л m (Uotɛrgéjtskij skandál), Уотерге́йт (ru) m (Uotɛrgéjt), Уо́тергейт (ru) m (Uótɛrgejt) Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

Watergate (third-person singular simple present Watergates, present participle Watergating, simple past and past participle Watergated)

1. (transitive) To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.
2. (intransitive, somewhat rare) To engage in activities associated with the Watergate scandal.

Alternative forms

• watergate

References

1. John Kelly (13 December 2004), “Answer Man: A Gate to Summers Past”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 18 September 2009, retrieved 18 September 2009

• “Watergate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.