vacant

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Pronunciation

Audio (US) (file)
IPA^(key): /ˈveɪkənt/

Adjective

vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

Not occupied; empty.
vacant lot
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 (buš)
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)
Indonesian: lowong (id)
Italian: vacante (it)
Japanese: 空の (ja) (からの, kara no)

Kabuverdianu: inban
Korean: 비다 (ko) (bida)
Kurdish:
Sorani: چۆڵ‎ (ku) (çoll)
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: вакантний (uk) (vakántnyj)o

showing no intelligence or interest

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

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

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /va.kɑ̃/
Audio (file)

Adjective

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

vacant

Further reading

“vacant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

vacant

third-person plural present active indicative of vacō

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