gulf
noun
1 gulf
An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.
Roget 198:
interval,
interspace†;
separation
etc.
44;
break,
gap,
opening;
hole
etc.
260;
chasm,
hiatus,
caesura;
interruption,
interregnum;
interstice,
lacuna,
cleft,
mesh,
crevice,
chink,
rime,
creek,
cranny,
crack,
chap,
slit,
fissure,
scissure†,
rift,
flaw,
breach,
rent,
gash,
cut,
leak,
dike,
ha-ha.
gorge,
defile,
ravine,
canon,
crevasse,
abyss,
abysm;
gulf;
inlet,
frith†,
strait,
gully;
pass;
furrow
etc.
259;
abra†;
barranca†,
barranco†;
clove [U.S.],
gulch [U.S.],
notch [U.S.];
yawning gulf;
hiatus maxime [Lat.],
hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.];
parenthesis
etc.
(interjacence)
228†;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
incompleteness
etc.
53.
[interval of time]
period
etc.
108;
interim
(time)
106.
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Roget 208:
depth;
deepness
etc.
adj.;
profundity,
depression
etc.
(concavity)
252.
hollow,
pit,
shaft,
well,
crater;
gulf
etc.
198;
bowels of the earth,
botttomless pit†,
hell.
soundings,
depth of water,
water,
draught,
submersion;
plummet,
sound,
probe;
sounding rod,
sounding line;
lead.
bathymetry.
[instrument to measure depth]
sonar,
side-looking sonar;
bathometer†.
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Roget 343:
land covered with water,
gulf,
gulph†,
bay,
inlet,
bight,
estuary,
arm of the sea,
bayou [U.S.],
fiord,
armlet;
frith†,
firth,
ostiary†,
mouth;
lagune†,
lagoon;
indraught†;
cove,
creek;
natural harbor;
roads;
strait;
narrows;
Euripus;
sound,
belt,
gut,
kyles†;
continental slope,
continental shelf.
lake,
loch,
lough†,
mere,
tarn,
plash,
broad,
pond,
pool,
lin†,
puddle,
slab,
well,
artesian well;
standing water,
dead water,
sheet of water;
fish pond,
mill pond;
ditch,
dike,
dyke,
dam;
reservoir
etc.
(store)
636;
alberca†,
barachois†,
hog wallow [U.S.].
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Dutch: golf, baai
Polish: gulf
2 gulf
An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding):
— He felt a gulf between himself and his former friends.
synonyms: disconnect, disconnection.
Dutch: uitzetten, afzetten, afsluiten, uitschakelen, disjunctie, kloof
3 gulf
A deep wide chasm.
Dutch: golf
Polish: czeluść
Moby thesaurus: Charybdis, Maelstrom, abysm, abyss, aperture, arm, armlet, arroyo, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cave, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, cove, crack, cranny, crater, creek, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, eddy, estuary, euripus, excavation, fault, fenestra, fiord, firth, fissure, fistula, fjord, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, frith, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gully, gurge, gut, harbor, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet, interval, joint, kloof, kyle, lacuna, laying open, leak, loch, lough, maelstrom, mine, moat, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, quarry, ravine, reach, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, rent, rift, rime, road, roads, roadstead, rupture, scissure, seam, separation, shaft, slit, slot, slough, sound, space, split, stoma, strait, straits, swirl, throwing open, trench, twirl, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, vortex, wadi, well, whirl, whirlpool, workings, yawn, yawning abyss ... show more.
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