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
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Trump's promise to rename the gulf isn't the first.—Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025 Familiar issues persist, however, including the gulf between the predictable top three and the lower end of the table, and the worryingly incessant frequency of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures.—Jessica Hopkins, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 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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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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