Definitions for lacuna

lacuna la·cu·na

Spelling: [luh-kyoo-nuh]
IPA: /ləˈkyu nə/

Lacuna is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in lacuna (aaclnu).

Definitions for lacuna

noun

  1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
  2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells.
  3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.

Origin of lacuna

1655-65; Latin lacūna ditch, pit, hole, gap, deficiency, akin to lacus vat, lake1. Cf. lagoon

Examples for lacuna

The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH.

This stanza being incomplete, I think, the lacuna is to be put after l. 838.

This last prince was on the throne in 667, but his reign is followed by a lacuna of more than a century.

There is evidently a lacuna, as the transition to Orestes is worse than abrupt.

This essay is an attempt to fill in a small part of the lacuna.

He had not the slightest notion what a lacuna, or its plural, signified.

Adopting Reiske's suggestion for filling out a lacuna in the sense.

In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists.

The critique extends into nearly every little crevice and lacuna of our civic life.

Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.

Word Value for lacuna
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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