Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Containing no matter; empty.
  • adjective Not occupied; unfilled.
  • adjective Completely lacking; devoid: synonym: empty.
  • adjective Ineffective; useless.
  • adjective Having no legal force or validity; null.
  • adjective Games Lacking cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.
  • noun An empty space.
  • noun A vacuum.
  • noun An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.
  • noun A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.
  • noun Games Absence of cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.
  • intransitive verb To take out (the contents of something); empty.
  • intransitive verb To excrete (body wastes).
  • intransitive verb To leave; vacate.
  • intransitive verb To make void or of no validity; invalidate.
  • intransitive verb To excrete body wastes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make or leave vacant; quit; vacate; depart from; leave; hence, to clear; free; empty.
  • To emit, throw, or send out; empty out; specifically, to evacuate from the intestine or bladder: as, to void excrementitious matter.
  • To lay aside; cease to use; divest one's self of.
  • To invalidate; annul; nullify; render of no validity or effect.
  • To avoid; shun.
  • To dismiss; send away.
  • To go; depart.
  • To have an evacuation.
  • To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman, Surgery. [Rare.] To become empty or vaçant.
  • Empty, or not containing matter; vacant; not occupied; unfilled: as, a void space or place.
  • Having no holder or possessor; vacant; unoccupied; without incumbent.
  • Not taken up with business; leisure.
  • Being without; devoid; destitute; lacking; without; free from: usually with of: as, void of learning; void of common sense.
  • Not producing any effect; ineffectual; useless; vain; superfluous.
  • Specifically, in law, without legal efficacy; incapable of being enforced by law; having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right: as, a deed not duly signed and sealed is void; a promise without consideration is void.
  • Devoid of wealth; poor.
  • =Syn. 1, 2, and , Devoid, etc. See vacant.
  • Invalid.
  • noun An empty or unoccupied space; a vacuum.
  • noun An opening; a solution of continuity in an inclosure of any kind; a space unfilled or not built up, as contrasted with closed or occupied areas.
  • noun The last course or remove; the dessert.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An empty space; a vacuum.
  • adjective Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
  • adjective Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
  • adjective Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid.
  • adjective Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
  • adjective Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
  • adjective (Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
  • adjective (Physics) a vacuum.
  • transitive verb To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
  • transitive verb To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
  • transitive verb To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
  • intransitive verb To be emitted or evacuated.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French voide, feminine of voit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, alteration of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, variant of vacuus, from vacāre, to be empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French vuit, voide (modern vide).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Alteration of voidee.

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  • Hearts: to be void in a suit is to not hold any cards in that suit

    January 27, 2009

  • Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it We must continually suspend the work of the imagination in filling the void within ourselves."

    "In no matter what circumstances, if the imagination is stopped from pouring itself out, we have a void (the poor in spirit). In no matter what circumstances... imagination can fill the void. This is why the average human beings can become prisoners, slaves, prostitutes, and pass thru no matter what suffering without being purified."

    "That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die."

    -- Gravity and Grace: Simone Weil

    March 23, 2010