Meaning

6 senses
  1. A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.

    Spalt

  2. A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.

    A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.

  3. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

    a blank gap or missing part

  4. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

    An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.

    Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.

  5. (figuratively)Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.

  6. A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.

    lexikalische Lücke

Examples

4 sentences
  1. There's a lacuna in this poem.

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  2. As an assignment, fill in the lacuna in this poem.

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  3. There are lacunae in this inscription that make it difficult to decipher.

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  4. Tom's poems simulate the lacunae found in ancient writing for poetic effect.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(anatomy) opening, pit, depression:
language gap:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Dou

Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.

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Forms

plural: lacunae / lacunas
Singularlacuna
Plurallacunae / lacunas

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a blank gap or missing part:blank

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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