vacant

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

• Audio (US):

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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. Blank.

   Synonyms: empty, featureless

   a vacant page

3. 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)
• 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)

• 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

Verb

vacant

1. gerund of vacar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.kɑ̃/

• Audio:

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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

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

		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