space
/speɪs/ noun A2- The distance between objects.
- A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- 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.
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. · the first man in space
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- 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. · exhibition space; public space; the space is light-filled
Plural spaces
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Behind the head of the bed, and concealed by a stone fitting in so closely as to defy all suspicion, was a hollow space, and in this space a ladder of cords between twenty-five and thirty feet in length.
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
Across this bare space there was scrawled in blood-red letters a single word—
Here and there the lane was splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy beneath the maples, and the spaces under the firs were filled with a clear violet dusk like airy wine.
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