• Gatesian

    Origin

    en + -Gates + ian

    Full definition of Gatesian

    Adjective

    Gatesian

    1. Of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
      • 1999, Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual interrogations, The central critique of the applicability of Gatesian revisionism for a narrative of African American women's literary tradition was framed by Hortense Spillers in 1985...
      • 2001, Shirley A Stave, Gloria Naylor: strategy and technique, magic and myth, In a Gatesian sense, Naylor signifies on Cane in her work...
      • 2004, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Seeing the unspeakable: the art of Kara Walker, Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history...
    2. Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of .
      • 1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision.
      • 2008, James A Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin AmericaFriends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach...
      • 2008, David P Reiter, Primary Instinct, The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off.

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