vacant

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

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vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

1. 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 […]

2. (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.

3. Blank.

   Synonyms: empty, featureless

   a vacant page

4. 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.

• situations vacant
• vacancy (noun)
• vacant lot
• vacantly (adverb)

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vacant

1. gerund of vacar

Learned borrowing from Latin vacans. See also vaquant, which it could be seen as a respelling of (compare provoquant ~ provocant).

• IPA^(key): /va.kɑ̃/

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

1. vacant

• vacance

• “vacant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.kant]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.kant]

vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacō

• IPA^(key): /vaˈkaŋt/

vacant

1. vacant

Borrowed from French vacant, from Latin vacans.

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

1. unoccupied