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Definition of Vacant
Vacant

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

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Vacant Quotations

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.
Frederic Remington

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
Helen Rowland

Vacant Translations

vacant in Afrikaans is vakant
vacant in Dutch is leeg, vrij, open, onbezet
vacant in French is vacant
vacant in German is leerstehend, unbesetzt, leerstehende, leer
vacant in Italian is vacante
vacant in Norwegian is vakant, ledig
vacant in Portuguese is vago
vacant in Swedish is obesatt, ledig, tom

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