lacuna

see definition of lacuna

nounpause

Synonyms for lacuna

noun pause

Antonyms for lacuna

break

noun. interruption of activity

breaks

noun. interruption of activity

hiatus

noun. pause, interruption

Word Origin & History

"blank or missing portion in a manuscript," 1660s, from Latin lacuna "hole, pit," diminutive of lacus "pond, lake" (see lake (n.1)). The Latin plural is lacunae. Related: Lacunal; lacunar; lacunose.

Example Sentences for lacuna

The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH.

This essay is an attempt to fill in a small part of the lacuna.

Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.

In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists.

This stanza being incomplete, I think, the lacuna is to be put after l. 838.

He had not the slightest notion what a lacuna, or its plural, signified.

There is evidently a lacuna, as the transition to Orestes is worse than abrupt.

Adopting Reiske's suggestion for filling out a lacuna in the sense.

This last prince was on the throne in 667, but his reign is followed by a lacuna of more than a century.

The words suggested in Orellius, Indicii falsi auctores propelli jubet, are used here to fill up the lacuna.

lacuna

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Antonyms for lacuna

break

breaks

gap

gaps

hiatus

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break

breaks

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gaps

hiatus

Synonyms for lacuna

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