vacant

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

• Audio (US):

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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

• unfilled
• vacate verb

Translations

not occupied

• Arabic: خَالِيّ (ḵāliyy)
• Bashkir: буш (buş)
• 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), დაუკავებელი (dauḳavebeli)
• German: frei (de), vakant (de)
• Hungarian: üres (hu)
• Icelandic: laus (is)
• Indonesian: lowong (id)
• Italian: vacante (it)
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• Japanese: 空の (ja) (からの, kara no)
• Kabuverdianu: inban
• Korean: 비다 (ko) (bida)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: vacans
• Maori: hāmama, wātea, āputa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubesatt (position)

• 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)

showing no intelligence or interest

• Bashkir: буш (buş), мәғәнәһеҙ (məğənəheź)
• Catalan: vacu
• French: niais (fr) m
• Georgian: ცარიელი (carieli), თავცარიელი (tavcarieli), უქმი (ukmi), არარსებული (ararsebuli)
• German: leer (de), nichtssagend (de), ausdruckslos (de)
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• 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 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.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vacō

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈkaŋt/

Adjective

vacant

1. vacant