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Meaning of "lacuna" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LACUNA

From Latin lacūna pool, cavity, from lacus lake.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LACUNA

lacuna  [ləˈkjuːnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LACUNA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lacuna is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LACUNA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lacuna

Lacuna may refer to: ▪ Lacuna, a missing section of text ▪ Lacuna, an extended silence in a piece of music ▪ Lacuna, a lexical gap in a language ▪ Lacuna, the lack of a law or legal source addressing a situation ▪ Lacuna, a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage ▪ Lacuna, a fictional Marvel Comics superhero ▪ The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver ▪ Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ▪ Lacuna, a character in Xanth by Piers Anthony ▪ Lacunary function, in mathematics ▪ Jessie Lacuna, a Filipino swimmer ▪ Lacuna, a 2012 film...

Definition of lacuna in the English dictionary

The definition of lacuna in the dictionary is a gap or space, esp in a book or manuscript. Other definition of lacuna is a cavity or depression, such as any of the spaces in the matrix of bone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LACUNA


Buna
ˈbuːnə
cassumunar
ˌkæsʊˈmjuːnə
communer
kəˈmjuːnə
Fortuna
fɔːˈtjuːnə
impugner
ɪmˈpjuːnə
Kaduna
kəˈduːnə
koruna
kɒˈruːnə
kuna
ˈkuːnə
lacunar
ləˈkjuːnə
laguna
ləˈɡuːnə
Luna
ˈluːnə
lunar
ˈluːnə
Nagarjuna
ˌnæɡɑːˈdʒuːnə
oppugner
əˈpjuːnə
Pune
ˈpuːnə
schooner
ˈskuːnə
sooner
ˈsuːnə
tuna
ˈtjuːnə
tuner
ˈtjuːnə
vicuna
vɪˈkjuːnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LACUNA

lactoflavin
lactogenic
lactoglobulin
lactometer
lactone
lactonic
lactoprotein
lactoscope
lactose
lactosuria
lacunae
lacunal
lacunar
lacunaria
lacunary
lacunate
lacune
lacunose
lacunosity
lacustrine

WORDS THAT END LIKE LACUNA

abuna
Arjuna
avifauna
bhuna
Duna
Eskilstuna
fauna
herpetofauna
induna
Kiruna
macrofauna
megafauna
mezzaluna
mizuna
Pampeluna
puna
sauna
skipjack tuna
Varuna
Yokozuna

Synonyms and antonyms of lacuna in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LACUNA»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lacuna» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lacuna
blank · break · gap · hiatus · omission · space · void

Translation of «lacuna» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LACUNA

Find out the translation of lacuna to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lacuna from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lacuna» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

腔隙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

laguna
570 millions of speakers

English

lacuna
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثغرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лакуна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lacuna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফাঁক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lacune
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lacuna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lakune
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

脱落
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

탈문
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lacuna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cách quang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடைவெளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोकळी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eksiklik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lacuna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

luka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лакуна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lacună
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κενό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leemte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lacuna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lacuna
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lacuna

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LACUNA»

The term «lacuna» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.814 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of lacuna
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «lacuna».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LACUNA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lacuna» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lacuna» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lacuna

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LACUNA»

Discover the use of lacuna in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lacuna and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Lacuna
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America.
Barbara Kingsolver, 2009
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The Lacuna
The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.
Barbara Kingsolver, 2009
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Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi
Lacuna Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming soon!) Don't miss these short stories set in the Lacuna universe: Magnet Magnet: Special Mission ...
David Adams, 2012
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Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion
Lacuna Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming soon!) Don't miss these short stories set in the Lacuna universe: Magnet Magnet: Special Mission ...
David Adams, 2012
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Growing from Seed: An Introduction to Social Forestry
In making use of forest resources, people throughout history have frequently organized themselves and established both formal and informal rules.However, just as the discipline of Forestry had previously limited and concentrated the ...
Celeste Lacuna-Richman, 2011
6
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
Voted one of the best fifteen Canadian books of 2007 by Quill & Quire, this is original and mischevious; a novel to delight and surprise.
Sean Dixon, 2008
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Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity:
- Lacuna - Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi - Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion - Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity (new release!) - Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming 2014!) Don't miss these short stories set in the Lacuna universe: - Magnet - ...
David Adams, 2013
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Virtual Systems and Multimedia: 13th International ...
2.2 Bayesian Classifier with HCM For most of Chinese murals, the color of the lacuna is usually different from color of non-lacuna. We construct lacuna and non -lacuna histogram color models using our training set of images which were ...
Theodor G. Wyeld, Sarah Kenderdine, Michael Docherty, 2008
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General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System - Latin Nomencl. ...
C Inguinal region and the contents of the lacuna musculorum and lacuna vasorum Anterior view. The drawing shows a portion of the right hip bone and the adjacent anterior inferior abdominal wall with the external inguinal ring and the ...
Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, 2011
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State of Exception
Butin whatdoesthelacunainquestionactuallyconsist? Istheretruly something like a lacuna in the strict sense? Here, the lacuna does not concern a deficiencyin thetext ofthelegislation that must becompleted by the judge; it concerns, rather, ...
Giorgio Agamben, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LACUNA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lacuna is used in the context of the following news items.
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PH swimmers Lacuna, Alkhaldi eye Olympic berths | Inquirer Sports
Jessie Khing Lacuna is still two seconds away from the standard time while Jasmine Alkhaldi has been religiously working on improving her ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
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SEAG veterans break three swim records | Inquirer Sports
Ilustre exploited Jessie Khing Lacuna's absence and clocked 2:08.18 to reset the old mark of Jeremy Brian Lim (2:12.18) last year. «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
3
Fort Worth Online Tutoring - Chicago Tribune
... tests, the online tutors in Fort Worth take steps to interact with students, probe into their psychology and find out the lacuna in their studies. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Lacuna, Dato topple pair of G-League marks each
Lacuna, winner of a silver medal and a pair of bronzes in the recent Singapore Southeast Asian Games, set the meet marks over the fast-rising ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
5
From deep roots
In other words, he finds space for his individual talent in the lacuna left by tradition and from there he founds the citadel of his world views. «E Kantipur, Jul 15»
6
German Finance Minister Schäuble's Plan for Europe – Do …
The euro crisis has expanded this lacuna at the centre of Europe hideously. An informal body, the Eurogroup, that keeps no minutes, abides by ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
7
Films move out of cinemas
'Reelmonk,' to be launched next week, aims to fill this lacuna. Through the 'Reelmonk' platform, films are released online soon after their ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Magna Carta 800 years on: faded lustre and family law
In October, a father with significant cognitive impairment fighting the removal of his son slipped into an increasingly familiar lacuna: no funds for ... «Family Law, Jul 15»
9
If Yakub plea rejected, he will be first to hang in Maharashtra after …
The apex court takes every precaution to see that even remotely there should be no lacuna or error in its judgment since a death sentence is ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
10
Are Search Engines Responsible For Reputation Yes Virginia They …
As I noted at the beginning of this article, the situation has left a lacuna where defamation can live on the internet, unimpeded. Our traditional ... «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Lacuna [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lacuna>. May 2024 ».
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