Hiatus
[haɪ'eɪtəs] or [haɪ'etəs]
Definition
(pl. ) of Hiatus
(n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
(n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Opening, gap, break, interval, chasm.
Checked by Felicia
Definition
n. a gap: an opening: a chasm: a break in continuity a defect: (gram.) a concurrence of vowel sounds in two successive syllables.
Typist: Patricia
Examples
- She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Paul was used to--and of which he could follow the meanderings and fill the hiatus, and pardon the strange stammeringsstrange to him no longer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There were still hiatuses for her in Mrs. Struthers's past. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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