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Gulf of Amerika

Gulf of Amerika is the alternative spelling of Gulf of America.

Meaning of Gulf of America

Proper noun

the Gulf of America

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of Nakhodka Bay: A bay of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
  2. (US, neologism) 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.
    • 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...2008, Joseph A. Gillan, chapter 29, in Just before the Dawn: Rebecca Remembered (Fiction), Sarasota, Florida: LIKAJE Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177

Questions about Gulf of Amerika

What is Gulf of Amerika the alternative spelling of?
Gulf of Amerika is the alternative spelling of Gulf of America.

Words near Gulf of Amerika in the dictionary

  1. Gulf fritillary
  2. Gulf menhaden
  3. Gulf of Aden
  4. Gulf of Alaska
  5. Gulf of America
  6. Gulf of Amerika
  7. Gulf of Antalya
  8. Gulf of Aqaba
  9. Gulf of Basra
  10. Gulf of Beibu
  11. Gulf of Bothnia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Gulf of Amerika (page history and authors); Gulf of America (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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