Meaning of empty space | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unoccupied space where something may be stored
2. An unoccupied area or volume.
3. Vacuum; a space containing nothing at all
4. A feeling of longing for someone or something that is gone; a sense of a thing's absence.

Examples

“You can park your car in that empty space.”

“You can put the key in that empty space.”

“The empty space at the sides of the page is called the "margin".”

“He spends all his time staring into empty space.”

“Atoms are mostly empty space.”

“It didn't seem possible that he wasn't going to be standing by the Dumpster, waiting for me at lunch, or meeting me in the science lab after school. I felt an empty space where my heart had been.”

“The body of the working-class man of the 1930s — and to an extent its text — is hungry, an empty space once filled by its labor.”

“Now, there is only empty space where the future should be.”

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