{"def":{"short":"a gate, i.e., the leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively)","long":["a gate",["of the larger sort",["in the wall of either a city","a palace","a town","the temple","a prison"]],"the gates of hell (likened to a vast prison)","metaphorically the access or entrance into any state"]},"deriv":"apparently a primary word","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈpy.le","ipa_mod":"ˈpju.le̞","sbl":"pylē","dic":"POO-lay","dic_mod":"PYOO-lay"}}