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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hi•a•tus /haɪˈeɪtəs/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -tus•es, -tus. - a break or interruption in something, such as work, a series, or some action.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hi•a•tus (hī ā′təs),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tus•es, -tus. - a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- a missing part;
gap or lacuna:Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript. - any gap or opening.
- Grammar, Poetrythe coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
- Anatomya natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.
- Latin hiātus opening, gap, equivalent. to hiā(re) to gape, open + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
- 1555–65
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged break, interval, space.
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