different between landlocked vs gulf

English

Etymology

land +? locked

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lændl?kt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?lændl?kt/
• Hyphenation: land?locked

Adjective

landlocked (not comparable)

1. (of a country, geographical region, etc.) Surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea).

   Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.

2. Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon.
3. (US, real estate, of a property or parcel) Surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.

Translations

References

• landlocked at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• gulph (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English gulf, goulf, golf, from Old French golf, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colfos, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos, “bosom, gulf”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?lf, IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf
• Homophone: golf (some speakers)

Noun

gulf (plural gulfs)

1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
2. (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV. i. 23:

     Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,

3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
4. (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea

5. (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
6. (figuratively) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.

   • Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
7. (figuratively) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
8. (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (difference): abyss

Translations

Verb

gulf (third-person singular simple present gulfs, present participle gulfing, simple past and past participle gulfed)

1. (Oxbridge slang, transitive) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.