Tra từ gulf - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

gulf [gulf gulfs gulfed gulfing] BrE [ɡʌlf] NAmE [ɡʌlf] noun
1. countable a large area of sea that is partly surrounded by land
•the Gulf of Mexico
2. the Gulfsingular the Persian Gulf, the area of sea between the Arabian ↑peninsula and Iran
•the Gulf States (= the countries with coasts on the Gulf)
3. countable, usually singular ~ (between A and B) a large difference between two people or groups in the way that they think, live or feel
•The gulf between rich and poor is enormous.
•It felt as if a gulf had opened up between his life and mine.
4. countable a wide deep crack in the ground
see bridge the gap/gulf/divide at ↑bridge _v.

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

Example Bank:
•A gulf of mistrust still exists between them.
•For many teachers, there existed an unbridgeable gulf between home and school life.
•Other factors widened the gulf that separated rich from poor.
•The documentary illustrated the gulf between industrialized and developing countries.
•The new degree course aims to bridge the gulf between education and industry.
•There appeared to be a growing gulf between the prosperous south and the declining towns of the north.
•This atrocity has created a huge gulf between the two groups.
•the huge gulf in level between professional and amateur teams
•the ideological gulf that separated the two branches of the movement
•the yawning gulf that separates the two cultures