Watergate
See also: watergate and water gate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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]
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Watergate
- 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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
scandal
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VerbEdit
Watergate (third-person singular simple present Watergates, present participle Watergating, simple past and past participle Watergated)
- (transitive) To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.
- (intransitive, somewhat rare) To engage in activities associated with the Watergate scandal.
Alternative formsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ John Kelly (13 December 2004), “Answer Man: A Gate to Summers Past”, in The Washington Post[1], archived from the original on 18 September 2009
- “Watergate, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
