Word.ws English Dictionary

Gulf States

Gulf States proper noun: the US states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Proper noun

the Gulf States pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The US states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
  2. (plural, plural-only) The Arab states of the Persian Gulf; Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

Questions about Gulf States

What does Gulf States mean?
Gulf States means the US states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
What part of speech is Gulf States?
Gulf States is a proper noun.

Words near Gulf States in the dictionary

  1. Gulf of Tong-King
  2. Gulf of Tonkin
  3. Gulf of Venice
  4. Gulf rupee
  5. Gulf rupees
  6. Gulf States
  7. Gulf Stream
  8. Gulf War
  9. Gulf War illness
  10. Gulf War syndrome
  11. gulfe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Gulf States (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Gulf States.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gulf_states. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.