floodgates

Meaning of floodgates

noun
  1. An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
  2. (by extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion etc.

Information about floodgates

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of floodgates is: floodgate.
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Hyphenation of floodgates

flood-gates

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • floodgates is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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