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From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈveɪkənt/
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vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

  1. 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 []
  2. Blank.
    a vacant page
  3. Showing no intelligence or interest.
    a vacant stare
    a vacant look in her eyes

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vacant

  1. gerund of vacar

French edit

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

  1. vacant

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vacant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacō

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vacant

  1. vacant

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French vacant, from Latin vacans.

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vacant m or n (feminine singular vacantă, masculine plural vacanți, feminine and neuter plural vacante)

  1. unoccupied

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