gap – English noun declension

English noun forms of gap

Noun: gap
Singulargap
Pluralgaps

Sample Sentences

  • He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
  • We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
  • There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
  • I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
  • I'm taking a gap.
  • You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
  • Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
  • Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
  • She has a gap in her teeth.
  • The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness. [2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • But there is a wide gap between the dollars being invested in creators and the respect that is paid to them. It is time to take influencers seriously. [2026 March 9, Cyrus Veyssi, “In Defense of Influencers”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026:]
  • The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
  • At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
  • Jones doubled through the gap.
  • Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee. [2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gap /gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”). Doublet of gape. See: Middle English Nouns 'gap//gappe', Middle English Nouns 'gap//gappe', Old Norse Nouns 'gap', Danish Nouns 'gab'.

Verbs referencing "gap"

Dutch Nouns gap.