vacant

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

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Adjective

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• vacate
• vacuous
• vacuum

Translations

not occupied

Arabic: خَالِيّ (ḵāliyy) Armenian: թափուր (hy) (tʻapʻur) Bashkir: буш (buş) Belarusian: во́льны (be) (vólʹny), вака́нтны (vakántny) Bulgarian: свобо́ден (bg) (svobóden), незает (bg) (nezaet) Catalan: vacant (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 空的 (zh) (kòng de) Czech: volný (cs) Danish: ledig (da) Dutch: leeg (nl), vacant (nl) Esperanto: vaka Finnish: vapaa (fi) French: vide (fr) Georgian: თავისუფალი (tavisupali), დაუკავებელი (dauḳavebeli) German: frei (de), vakant (de) Hindi: रिक्त (hi) (rikt) Hungarian: üres (hu) Icelandic: laus (is) Indonesian: lowong (id) Italian: vacante (it) Japanese: 空の (ja) (からの, kara no) Javanese: lowong (jv) Kabuverdianu: inban Korean: 비다 (ko) (bida) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: چۆڵ (çoll) Latin: vacivus Macedonian: сло́боден (slóboden), пра́зен (prázen) Maori: hāmama, wātea, āputa Middle English: ydel Norwegian: Bokmål: ubesatt (position) Occitan: vacant (oc) Ottoman Turkish: بوش (boş), خالی (hali) Polish: wolny (pl) Portuguese: vago (pt) Romanian: gol (ro) Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj), вака́нтный (ru) (vakántnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj) Spanish: vacante (es) Swedish: ledig (sv) Ukrainian: вака́нтний (uk) (vakántnyj), ві́льний (uk) (vílʹnyj) Vietnamese: trống (vi), rỗng (vi)

showing no intelligence or interest

Arabic: خَاوِي (ḵāwī), فَارِغ (fāriḡ) Bashkir: буш (buş), мәғәнәһеҙ (məğənəheź) Bulgarian: безучастен (bg) (bezučasten) Catalan: vacu French: niais (fr) m Georgian: ცარიელი (carieli), თავცარიელი (tavcarieli), უქმი (ukmi), არარსებული (ararsebuli) German: leer (de), nichtssagend (de), ausdruckslos (de) Macedonian: о́тсутен (ótsuten), пра́зен (prázen), бези́зразен (bezízrazen) Maori: pao Russian: пусто́й (ru) (pustój), отсу́тствующий (ru) (otsútstvujuščij), бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj), пра́здный (ru) (prázdnyj), досу́жий (ru) (dosúžij) Swedish: tom (sv), uttryckslös (sv), frånvarande (sv), innehållslös (sv)

Anagrams

• Van cat

Catalan

Pronunciation

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Verb

vacant

1. gerund of vacar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.kɑ̃/

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Adjective

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

1. vacant

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacō

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈkaŋt/

Adjective

vacant

1. vacant

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Adjective

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

1. unoccupied

Declension

Declension of vacant

		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