It's the Word of the Day for April 18th.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is hiatus, spelled H-I-A-T-U-S. Hiatus is a noun. In general contexts,

hiatus usually refers to a period of time when something such as an activity or program

is suspended. In biology, hiatus describes a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ,

and in linguistics, it refers to the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening

consonant sound.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety.

Following its return in 2025 after a nearly three-year hiatus,

the 52nd American Music Awards are heading back to Las Vegas to be broadcast live from a new venue, the MGM Grand

Garden Arena. This brief hiatus in your day is brought to you by, well, the word hiatus.

While the word now most often refers to a temporary pause, hiatus originally referred to a physical

opening in something, such as the

mouth of a cave, or as the 18th century British novelist Lawrence Stern would have it, a sartorial

gap. In the wildly experimental novel Tristram Shandy, Stern wrote of the hiatus in Futatorius' breeches.

Hiatus comes from the Latin verb, hiere, meaning to yawn, which makes it a distant relation

of both the words yawn and chasm. And that's all we have for now. You may resume your

regular activities. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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