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void

American
[void] / vɔɪd /

adjective

  1. Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.

  2. useless; ineffectual; vain.

  3. devoid; destitute (usually followed byof ).

    a life void of meaning.

  4. without contents; empty.

  5. without an incumbent, as an office.

    Synonyms:
    unoccupied, vacant
  6. Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; empty.

  7. (in cards) having no cards in a suit.


noun

  1. an empty space; emptiness.

    He disappeared into the void.

    Synonyms:
    lack, absence, vacuum
  2. something experienced as a loss or privation.

    His death left a great void in her life.

  3. a gap or opening, as in a wall.

  4. Typography. counter.

  5. (in cards) lack of cards in a suit.

    a void in clubs.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify.

    to void a check.

  2. to empty; discharge; evacuate.

    to void excrement.

  3. to clear or empty (often followed byof ).

    to void a chamber of occupants.

  4. Archaic. to depart from; vacate.

verb (used without object)

  1. to defecate or urinate.

void British
/ vɔɪd /

adjective

  1. without contents; empty

  2. not legally binding

    null and void

  3. (of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied

  4. destitute or devoid

    void of resources

  5. having no effect; useless

    all his efforts were rendered void

  6. (of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit

    his spades were void

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an empty space or area

    the huge desert voids of Asia

  2. a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation

    his divorce left him in a void

  3. a lack of any cards in one suit

    to have a void in spades

  4. Also called: counter. the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to make ineffective or invalid

  2. to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents

  3. (also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)

  4. archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc)

  5. obsolete to expel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
void Idioms

Related Words

See empty.

Other Word Forms

  • nonvoid adjective
  • prevoid verb (used with object)
  • unvoid adjective
  • unvoidness noun
  • voider noun
  • voidness noun

Etymology

Origin of void

First recorded in 1250–1300; (adjective) Middle English voide, from Anglo-French, Old French voide, voit, vuide, vuit ( French vide ), from unattested Vulgar Latin vocīta, vocita feminine of vocītus, vocitus unattested and dissimilated variant of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, "empty"; vacuum; (verb) Middle English voiden, from Anglo-French voider, Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin vocitāre, derivative of unattested vocītus, vocitus; (noun) derivative of the adjective

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"They don't want to make another mistake and very quickly go for someone that they're sort of trying to fill the void with," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

From BBC

Did they address the void, into which they were about to disappear, with renewed creativity?

From The Wall Street Journal

So an event bringing together people with a common passion fills a void, and the bakers generously shared their remarkable talent.

From The Wall Street Journal

These guarantees would be "considered void" if Ukraine "invades Russia or opens fire at Russian territory without provocation," the Kyiv Independent reports.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The void she leaves behind is immeasurable. We have lost a guide, a mentor, and a beautiful soul whose presence made the world a kinder place," he said.

From BBC

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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