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say it: guhlf
gulf is a noun meaning "an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay". It is pronounced /ˈɡʌlf/ — guhlf. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
“he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends”
“there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy”
a deep wide chasm
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gulf come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.