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prehiatus

prehiatus adjective: before a hiatus.

Adjective

prehiatus (not comparable)

  1. Before a hiatus.
    • On Monday, CBS’s “CSI: Miami” seized the title as the night’s highest-rated show among adults 18 to 49, while NBC’s “Heroes” continued to falter with ratings below its prehiatus levels.2007 May 9, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times

Origin of prehiatus

From pre- + hiatus.

Questions about prehiatus

What does prehiatus mean?
Prehiatus means before a hiatus.
What part of speech is prehiatus?
Prehiatus is an adjective.

Words near prehiatus in the dictionary

  1. preheritance
  2. preheroic
  3. preherpetic
  4. prehesternal
  5. preheterosexual
  6. prehiatus
  7. prehibernation
  8. prehierarchical
  9. prehilar
  10. prehilbert space
  11. prehilbert spaces

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