different between vacancy vs vacant

English

Etymology

From vac(ant) +? -ancy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ve?k?nsi/

Noun

vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)

1. An unoccupied position or job.
2. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
3. Empty space.
   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

     Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].

4. Lack of intelligence or understanding.
5. (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Related terms

• vacant (adjective)
• vacate (verb)

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?k?nt/

Adjective

vacant (comparative more vacant, superlative most vacant)

1. Not occupied; empty.

   vacant lot

2. 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

Anagrams

• Van cat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.k??/

Adjective

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

1. vacant

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

vacant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vac?

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?ka?t/

Adjective

vacant

1. vacant

Romanian

Etymology

From French vacant, from Latin vacans.

Adjective

vacant m or n (feminine singular vacant?, masculine plural vacan?i, feminine and neuter plural vacante)

1. unoccupied

Declension