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• GATEWAY TO THE WEST (noun) The noun GATEWAY TO THE WEST has 1 sense: 1. the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century Familiarity information: GATEWAY TO THE WEST used as a noun is very rare.
