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/haɪˈeɪtəs/ · hi·a·tus
noun
- A gap or break in a series, sequence, or continuity. The television series returned after a year‑long hiatus.
- An interruption or pause in activity, especially one that is unexpected. She took a brief hiatus from her research to travel abroad.
- A period of time when work or a regular activity is temporarily suspended. After months of intense campaigning, the candidate announced a short hiatus.
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Did you know? In linguistics, a hiatus describes two adjacent vowel sounds occurring in separate syllables without an intervening consonant, a usage that predates the modern sense of a temporal break.