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  1. adjective Holding or containing nothing.
  2. adjective Mathematics Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.
  3. adjective Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant: an empty chair; empty desert.

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  • The roof was empty, as far as he could tell -- empty even of bodies. —  The Ringworld Engineers
  • He turned to the checker, who nodded her head to confirm. —  Where There's Smoke
  • But they were empty--empty, and oh! —  When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
  • Someone has touched the door of the steel room; and yet the place was left empty--empty But it was no longer empty, as they found out when they reached it, for the doors had been flung open, the men who had been left on guard outside the stables were now inside it, the electric lights were in full blaze, the shotgun still hanging where Sharpless had left it, the impromptu bed was tumbled and tossed in a man's death agony, and at the foot of the steel door Logan lay, curled up in a heap and stone dead He would get in, Sir Henry, he'd have shot one or the other of us if we hadn't let him," said one of the outer guards as Sir Henry and Cleek appeared. —  Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
  • Ah ... —  A Gift From Earth
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ǣmtig, vacant, unoccupied, from ǣmetta, leisure; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English empty, emty, emti, amti, from Anglo-Saxon æmtig, emtig, æmetig, emetig, vacant, empty, free, idle, from *æmeta, æmtta, æmta, leisure (cf. the verb æmtian, be at leisure).
  2. Also English dial. empt; from Middle English empten, transitive make empty, intransitive be or become vacant, from Anglo-Saxon æmtian, intransitive, be vacant, be at leisure, from *æmeta, æmetta, leisure: see empty, adjective, on which the verb in modern use directly depends.
 

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