vacant
English
Etymology
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈveɪkənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)
- Not occupied; empty.
- a vacant room
- vacant seats
- 1892, E.K. Pearce, “Tweed Side”, in The Gentleman's magazine, page 171:
- Below and to rearward circles the Tweed, silver grey on a dark brown field. Beside its low banks no tourists linger, vacant hangs the quivering bridge; down the narrow lanes no carriages come pressing over a succession of waving hills […]
- Blank.
- a vacant page
- Showing no intelligence or interest.
- a vacant stare
- a vacant look in her eyes
Synonyms
- (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
- (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous
Derived terms
- situations vacant
- vacancy (noun)
- vacant lot
- vacantly (adverb)
Translations
not occupied
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showing no intelligence or interest
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Anagrams
Catalan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.kɑ̃/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “vacant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Romanian
Adjective
vacant m or n (feminine singular vacantă, masculine plural vacanți, feminine and neuter plural vacante)
Declension
Declension of vacant
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