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vacant

adj
/ˈveɪkənt/

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

  1. derived from vacāns
  2. derived from vacant

Definitions

  1. Not occupied

    Not occupied; empty.

    • a vacant room
    • a vacant consulate
    • 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. Not present

    Not present; absent.

  3. Blank.

    • a vacant page
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Showing no intelligence or interest.

      • a vacant stare
      • a vacant look in her eyes

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Derived

situations vacant, vacancy, vacant lot, vacantly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vacant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01vacant02occupied03military04forces05orchestral06played07play08careless09avoidance

A definitional loop anchored at vacant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at vacant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA