vacant
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)
- Not occupied; empty.
- Synonyms: available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied; see also Thesaurus:uninhabited, Thesaurus:empty
- a vacant room
- a vacant consulate
- 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 […]
- (rare) Not present; absent.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.
- Blank.
- Synonyms: empty, featureless
- a vacant page
- Showing no intelligence or interest.
- Synonym: vacuous
- a vacant stare
- a vacant look in her eyes
- 2002 November 22, Marc Collins, “Very OT-How Smart Are My Fellow Americans? :-)”, in rec.autos.simulators[1] (Usenet):
- Fortunately the Reagan administration proved you can have a vacant moron as President and nothing really that bad will happen because the government isn't actually run by one person...the Executive office isn't even really run by the President alone.
Derived terms
[edit]- situations vacant
- vacancy (noun)
- vacant lot
- vacantly (adverb)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not occupied
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showing no intelligence or interest
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Anagrams
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[edit]Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Verb
[edit]vacant
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vacant (feminine vacante, masculine plural vacants, feminine plural vacantes)
Further reading
[edit]- “vacant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwa.kant]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.kant]
Verb
[edit]vacant
Piedmontese
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]vacant
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Adjective
[edit]vacant m or n (feminine singular vacantă, masculine plural vacanți, feminine/neuter plural vacante)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | vacant | vacantă | vacanți | vacante | |||
| definite | vacantul | vacanta | vacanții | vacantele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | vacant | vacante | vacanți | vacante | |||
| definite | vacantului | vacantei | vacanților | vacantelor | ||||
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