Gulf

Noun

 * 1) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
 * 2)  That which swallows; the gullet.  William Shakespeare
 * 3) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. William Shakespeare
 * 4)  A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico or Persian Gulf.
 * 5)  A large deposit of ore in a lode.

Adjectives for Gulf
voracious; winding; foaming; starlit; yawning; impassable; remoter; deep; tragic; unfathomable; roaring; pebbly; fiery; envious; breaking; starry; mystic; mediate; azure.

Verbs for Gulf
e—; deepen into—; dip into—; span—; —absorbs, —confronts; —hides; —opens; —roars; —separates; —sweeps.

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

Alternative forms

 * gulph

Etymology
From golfe, from  golfo, from Late Latin colfos, from  κόλπος (kolpos)

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri: körfəz
 * Bosnian:
 * Dutch: golf
 * Esperanto: golfo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: öböl
 * Italian:
 * Kannada:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: залив
 * Latin: zaliv
 * Spanish:
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 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: lebug