lacuna

Noun

Meaning

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gap blank hiatus lumen space depression rift cranny opening break vacuum hole delay interval wait
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Antonyms

galaxy have world continuity surplus blockade
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Hypernyms

gap crack

Phrases with the word

trophoblastic lacuna Agrostis lacuna-vernalis

Derivatives

lacunae lacunas

Anagrams

canula

Examples

Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?" "No." "Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer? Jim Butcher

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. Junot Diaz

A Senior Law Lecturer at the Lagos State University, LASU, Gbenga Ojo, said the verdict was right even though it has exposed a lacuna in Nigeria’s law. Source: Internet

However, there seems to be a lacuna in the reasoning here. Source: Internet

Oloyede said that this lacuna had given room for fraudulent practices as not up to 20% of those that wrote the examination were the ones matriculated at the end of the day. Source: Internet

That lacuna also indicts Mike Bloomberg, whose own news outlet failed in precisely the same way. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

lactyl lactylate lactylic lacunae lacunal lacunar