English Explanatory Dictionary

space

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
  2. The distance between objects.
  3. A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
  4. A physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
  5. The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
  6. The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
  7. Of time.
  8. Free time; leisure, opportunity.
  9. A specific (specified) period of time.
  10. An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
  11. A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
  12. A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
verb
  1. To roam, walk, wander.
  2. To set some distance apart.
  3. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
  4. To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
  5. To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
  6. To travel into and through outer space.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

spās /speɪs/ en-us-space.ogg

Word forms

space spaces spacing spaced

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas, et al.; and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”). Partially displaced native Old English rum, whence Modern English room.

Synonyms

break gap interlapse interspace interstice interstitium opening separation space area volume outer space leisure time spare time duration span interval period period of time tide time time interval time period timespan stound spell while throw blank whitespace quad quadrat

Related words

apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang parentheses (US Canada) full stop period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash stroke espace spacious spatial

Derived words

3-to-the-em space 5-em space 5-to-the-em space absolute space absolute space-time action space aerospace agentspace airspace alien space bats anchor space anti-de Sitter space antispace anti-space artspace baby space backspace battlespace beamspace bedspace bispace Bloch space bootspace borderspace bottomspace brainspace breathing-space bunkspace Calabi-Yau space Cartesian space Cauchy space chatspace Chebyshev space classifying space clearance space closure space codespace color space colour space colourspace confined space counter-space counterspace covering space crash space crawlspace Crookes space cyberspace dataspace deep-space de Sitter space deskspace Destot's space diskspace domspace double-space double space duospace earthspace ecospace

Translations

Bulgarian: мя́сто Catalan: espai Czech: místo Danish: plads Finnish: tila Finnish: paikka Finnish: ala French: espace Galician: espazo Georgian: სივრცე Georgian: არე German: Platz German: Raum Hebrew: חָלָל Hebrew: מֶרְחָב Hungarian: hely Irish: spás Italian: spazio Japanese: 空間 Japanese: 場所 Korean: 공간 Luhya: enafasi Macedonian: простор Norwegian Bokmål: plass Norwegian Nynorsk: plass Polish: miejsce Portuguese: espaço Romanian: spațiu Russian: простра́нство Russian: ме́сто Swahili: nafasi Thai: อาณาเขต Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཁྱོན Tibetan: གོ་ཡུལ Tibetan: ཁམས Tibetan: དབྱིངས Turkish: yer Yiddish: חלל Zazaki: ca (diq) Finnish: syöstä avaruuteen
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary