Definitions for Gulf

Gulf gulf

Spelling: [guhlf]
IPA: /gʌlf/

Gulf is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Gulf (fglu).

Definitions for Gulf

noun

  1. a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
  2. a deep hollow; chasm or abyss.
  3. any wide separation, as in position, status, or education.
  4. something that engulfs or swallows up.

verb (used with object)

  1. to swallow up; engulf.

Origin of Gulf

1300-50; Middle English go(u)lf Old French golfe Italian golfo Late Greek kólphos, Greek kólpos bosom, lap, bay

Examples for Gulf

The outlets giving these pronouncements the most airtime are Arabic news stations in the gulf.

The gulf which separates parents and children is one which the parents must cross.

She passed listlessly out, and down the path toward the gulf.

Sadly, laws throughout the Middle East—from North Africa to the gulf—limit the rights of religious minorities and non-believers.

For her sake—for your Fanny's sake—pause, like me, before the gulf swallow us.

A sign that the gulf States and/or Turkey told the White House they were getting out if the footsie continued?

But The Pinkprint gives little consideration to the gulf between her various musical selves.

In the south, the gulf States view their Persian nuclear neighbor as a permanent archenemy.

Settlements have been established on the shores of the gulf of Carpentaria.

As a matter of fact, we dig a gulf between the material and the spiritual which does not exist.

Word Value for Gulf
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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