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单词 vacant
释义 va·cant
\ˈvākənt\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vacant-, vacans, present participle of vacare to be empty, be free; perhaps akin to Latin vanus empty, vain — more at wane
1. : not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer
 < appointed to the vacant office >
2. : being without content or occupant
 < a vacant seat in a bus >
 < a vacant room >
3. : devoid, destitute — usually used with of
 < the past, the future, majesty, love … you are vacant of them — Walt Whitman >
4. : free from activity
 < amid the stillness of the vacant night — William Cowper >
: free from work or occupation : unoccupied
 < obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel — Jane Austen >
5. : characterized by absence of thought and reflection: as
 a. : stupid, foolish, silly, dull
 b. : expressionless
  < she would forget altogether what she was about, and would sit down with a peculiarly vacant look on her face — O.E.Rölvaag >
  < vacant serenity of a … marble athlete — Edith Wharton >
 c. : marked by a respite from coherent purposive thought and reflection or by freedom from care
  < when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood — William Wordsworth >
6. : of, relating to, or being premises which are not lived in and from which the furniture and fixtures have been removed — compare unoccupied b
7.
 a. : not occupied or put to use
  < vacant land >
 b. : having no heir or claimant : abandoned
  < a vacant estate >
 c. : not granted away — used especially of state lands
Synonyms: see empty
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