Synonyms for lacuna

Grammar : Noun

Spell : luh-kyoo-nuh

Phonetic Transcription : ləˈkyu nə

Définition of lacuna

Origin : "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.

noun pause

Example sentences :

The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH.
Extract from : « The Bbur-nma in English » by Babur, Emperor of Hindustan

This essay is an attempt to fill in a small part of the lacuna.
Extract from : « Studies in the History and Method of Science » by Various

Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 13 » by Various

In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists.
Extract from : « Custom and Myth » by Andrew Lang

This stanza being incomplete, I think, the lacuna is to be put after l. 838.
Extract from : « Torrent of Portyngale » by Unknown

He had not the slightest notion what a lacuna, or its plural, signified.
Extract from : « The Postmaster's Daughter » by Louis Tracy

There is evidently a lacuna, as the transition to Orestes is worse than abrupt.
Extract from : « The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. » by Euripides

Adopting Reiske's suggestion for filling out a lacuna in the sense.
Extract from : « Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) » by Cassius Dio

This last prince was on the throne in 667, but his reign is followed by a lacuna of more than a century.
Extract from : « Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Charles Eliot

The words suggested in Orellius, Indicii falsi auctores propelli jubet, are used here to fill up the lacuna.
Extract from : « The Fables of Phdrus » by Phaedrus

Antonyms for lacuna

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