/ˈɛmpti/
Translation
Having nothing inside; not holding anything.
Word origin
From Old English aemettig, meaning at leisure or unoccupied.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- aemettig
Examples
, .
"Empty" means there is nothing inside the glass.
.
Here "empty" means the box had nothing in it.
.
Here "empty" means there were no people there.
Where this fits
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Stories
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Grammar articles
(8)Advanced articles in English: the zero article, the with names and places, and go to school vs go to the school
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Dummy subjects in English: it's raining, there's a problem, and why the subject slot is never empty
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Modals of deduction in English: must be, might be, could be and can't be
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
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