Vacant Meaning
/ˈveɪkənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot occupied; empty.
adjNot present; absent.
Sentence Examples
Is there a vacant seat?
How about playing catch in the vacant lot near by?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ house on the corner had no lights on for years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old house has been ____ for many years, and it is now starting to look a bit wild and neglected today.
Word Origin & History
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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[…]"
— 1892, E.K. Pearce, “Tweed Side”, in The Gentleman's magazine, page 171:
"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."
— 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
"Fortunately the Reagan administration proved you can have a vacant moron as President and nothing really that bad will happen because the government isn't actually run by one person...the Executive office isn't even really run by the President alone."
— 2002 November 22, Marc Collins, “Very OT-How Smart Are My Fellow Americans? :-)”, in rec.autos.simulators (Usenet):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ house on the corner had no lights on for years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old house has been ____ for many years, and it is now starting to look a bit wild and neglected today.