Definitions for hiatus

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hiatus hi·a·tus

Spelling: [hahy-ey-tuh s]

IPA: /haɪˈeɪ təs/

Hiatus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in hiatus (ahistu).

Definitions for hiatus

noun

1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
2. a missing part; gap or lacuna:
3. any gap or opening.
4. Grammar, Prosody. the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
5. Anatomy. a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.

Origin of hiatus

1555-65; Latin hiātus opening, gap, equivalent to hiā(re) to gape, open + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for hiatus

They forged ahead and toured in support of the new record for a year—then went on hiatus.

No copies were retained, so there is a hiatus in the record.

In the summer of 2013, Jon Stewart took a hiatus from The Daily Show and traveled to Jordan for a month to film a movie.

Comedy icon and Daily Show host Jon Stewart shocked fans when he took a three-month hiatus from the show in the summer of 2013.

The show returned from hiatus this week, and the host got right to work talking about Ferguson.

Of course the reason for the hiatus in the books was plain enough.

Then he covered the hiatus with paint, and hoisted the ensign to the flagstaff.

And yet his experience told him 205 that there must be some rift, some hiatus in the scheme.

Padre Goyo got back to Mexico in May from a three-month hiatus that he called a self-imposed exile in Europe.

The Composer, however, observed the hiatus, and directed the insertion of two rests.