gulf of america
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Gulf of Mexico: A gulf, a marginal sea of the Atlantic, off North America, north of the Caribbean Sea, confined by Mexico, Cuba, United States.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Siesta Key is touched on its south by Sarasota Bay and on its north by The Gulf of Mexico, which Rollie called "the Gulf of America." "It is here, in Sarasota, in the U-S-of-A, it is here legally, it is not unemployed and it does not carry a shiv or eat tacos." "It's the Gulf of America!" "I see nothing Mexican about that body of water at all.""
- "It's hard for Americans to understand the patriotism that can get bound up in place-names. We're a young country. We're also accustomed, in our cockeyed cowboy fashion, to everything else revolving around us, so we can afford to let slide the fact that, say, the Gulf of Mexico isn't called the Gulf of America. (Although, according to John Hebert, that is the pet issue of one frequent complainant to the Board on Geographic Names.)"
- "For all official purposes within the State of Mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties shall be known as the "Gulf of America.""
- "Lunday also wrote in the release that the agency would target the "maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America.""
- "Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps."
Etymology
gulf + America * (Nakhodka Bay): Partial calque of Russian зали́в Америка (zalív Amerika), from зали́в (zalív, “gulf, bay”) and the name of the Russian corvette Америка (Amerika) that discovered the bay. * (Gulf of Mexico): A renaming of the oceanic basin by US president Donald Trump in 2025, although earlier uses exist.
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Gulf of America (canonical)