gulfs

Meaning of gulfs

plural noun
  1. a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.
  2. a deep ravine, chasm, or abyss.
  3. a large difference or division between two people or groups, or between viewpoints, concepts, or situatios.
    the widening gulf between the rich and the poor

late Middle English: from Old French golfe, from Italian golfo, based on Greek kolpos ‘bosom, gulf’.

Information about gulfs

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of gulfs is: gulf.
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Hyphenation of gulfs

gulfs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • gulfs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

gulfs synonyms

Meaning a small arm of the sea, a lake, or a river:

inlet

Meaning a narrow, sheltered waterway, especially an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh:

creek

Meaning a curve or recess in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature:

bight

Meaning a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley:

fjord

Meaning the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream:

estuary

Meaning vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear:

sound

Meaning a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards:

bay

Meaning a small sheltered bay:

cove

Meaning a narrow inlet of the sea; an estuary:

firth

Meaning archaic spelling of firth:

frith

Meaning a small bay or creek in Orkney or Shetland:

voe

Meaning a long, narrow inlet formed by the partial submergence of a river valley:

ria

Meaning a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership:

fleet

Meaning a band or bracelet worn around the upper part of a person's arm:

armlet

Meaning a space or gap that allows passage or access:

opening

Meaning a difference, especially an undesirable one, between two views or situations:

gap

Meaning a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth:

fissure

Meaning past and past participle of cleave1:

cleft

Meaning a tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain:

split

Meaning a crack, split, or break in something:

rift

Meaning a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier:

crevasse

Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:

hole

Meaning a large hole in the ground:

pit

Meaning an empty space within a solid object:

cavity

Meaning a deep fissure in the earth's surface:

chasm

Meaning a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm:

abyss

Meaning a completely empty space:

void

Meaning a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides:

ravine

Meaning a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it:

gorge

Meaning a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America:

canyon

Meaning a ravine formed by the action of water:

gully

Meaning the process or state of diverging:

divergence

Meaning the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association:

contrast

Meaning the property of having poles or being polar:

polarity

Meaning a boundary between two things:

divide

Meaning the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated:

division

Meaning the process of distinguishing between two or more things:

separation

Meaning a point or way in which people or things are dissimilar:

difference

Meaning a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief:

schism

Meaning a break in relations:

breach

Meaning the action of ending a connection or relationship:

severance

Meaning an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely:

rupture

Meaning a separation between things which were or ought to be connected:

divorce

Meaning the action or state of cutting or being cut:

scission

Words that rhyme with gulfs

begulfs, engulfs, ingulfs

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