Antonyms for gap

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gap

Phonetic Transcription : gæp

Definition of gap

Origin : early 14c. (mid-13c. in place names), from Old Norse gap "chasm," related to gapa "to gape," from PIE *ghai- "to yawn, gape" (see yawn (v.)). Originally "hole in a wall or hedge;" broader sense is 16c. In U.S., common in place names in reference to a break or pass in a long mountain chain (especially one that water flows through). As a verb from 1847.

noun break, breach

Example sentences :

There was a gap in the conversation, which Clennam devoted to winding up his watch.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

It is all very well for us to be rich, but money simply enlarges the gap.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Besides, I was wrong when I said that money opened a gap between people.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Through this gap we rode, and I shouted loudly for Saxon to join us.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

I sought for a man that should stand in the gap before Me, and found none.
Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray

Two of the battalions, the Sixteenth and Tenth, were in the gap by midnight.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

The performance finished the gap between her and her companions.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

His subaltern, Bacon, had been the first to pass the gap, and had been killed on emerging.
Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst

But that was simple, and he sealed the gap shut with his flame.
Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin

A document so complete, so conclusive, in which there is not a gap?
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for gap

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