Noun
we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf
the gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along Verb
with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members
The violence again spoke of a technological gulf between Israel and its opponents.—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024 China is the undisputed king of small-scale consumer drones, but there is a vast gulf between them and conventional passenger aircraft.—Steve Wright, TIME, 31 July 2024
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018 See all Example Sentences for gulf
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English goulf, from Middle French golfe, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colpus, from Greek kolpos bosom, gulf; akin to Old English hwealf vault, Old High German walbo
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