vacant

Definition

Not occupied; empty.

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.

Example Sentences

• "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[…]"

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