vacant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
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 edit
- (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
- (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous
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 edit
Catalan edit
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
Verb edit
vacant
Piedmontese edit
Pronunciation 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 and neuter plural vacante)
Declension edit
Declension of vacant
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |