vacant

Contents

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

Adjective

vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

1. Not occupied; empty.

   vacant lot

2. Showing no intelligence or interest.

   a vacant stare

Synonyms

• (Not occupied): available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied
• (Showing no intelligence or interest): vacuous, thousand mile stare

Derived terms

• vacancy noun
• vacantly adverb

Related terms

• vacate verb

Translations

not occupied

• Arabic: خَالِيّ‎ (ḵāliyy)
• Bashkir: буш (buš)
• Catalan: vacant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空的 (zh) (kòng de)

• Danish: ledig (da)
• Dutch: leeg (nl)
• Finnish: vapaa (fi)
• French: vide (fr)
• Georgian: თავისუფალი (tavisupali)
• German: frei (de), vakant (de)
• Hungarian: üres (hu)
• Indonesian: lowong (id)

• Italian: vacante (it)
• Japanese: 空の (ja) (からの, kara no)
• Kabuverdianu: inban
• Korean: 비다 (ko) (bida)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چۆڵ‎ (ku) (çoll)

• Maori: hāmama, wātea, āputa
• Portuguese: vago (pt)
• Romanian: gol (ro)
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj), вака́нтный (ru) (vakántnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj)
• Spanish: vacante (es)
• Swedish: ledig (sv)
• Ukrainian: вакантний (uk) (vakántnyj)o

showing no intelligence or interest

• Bashkir: буш (buš), мәғәнәһеҙ (mäğänäheð)
• Catalan: vacu
• French: niais (fr) m
• German: leer (de), nichtssagend (de), ausdruckslos (de)

• Maori: pao
• Russian: пусто́й (ru) (pustój), отсу́тствующий (ru) (otsútstvujuščij), бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj), пра́здный (ru) (prázdnyj), досу́жий (ru) (dosúžij)
• Swedish: tom (sv), uttryckslös, frånvarande (sv), innehållslös (sv)

Anagrams

• Van cat

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.kɑ̃/

• Audio

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Adjective

vacant (feminine singular vacante, masculine plural vacants, feminine plural vacantes)

1. vacant

Further reading

• “vacant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacō