void
/vɔɪd/ noun C2- An empty space; a vacuum. · Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- A black cat. · My little void is so sweet sometimes.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- The lack of cards in a particular suit.
Plural voids
From the library
“Come,” said Andrea, “you are a man void of compassion; I’ll have you turned out.”
It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill.
At the moment Caderousse quitted his sentry-like watch before the door, the road on which he so eagerly strained his sight was void and lonely as a desert at midday.
My nerves thrilled with anticipation when at last the cold wind upon our faces and the dark, void spaces on either side of the narrow road told me that we were back upon the moor once again.
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