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say it: spays
space is a noun and verb meaning "the unlimited expanse in which everything is located". It is pronounced /ˈspeɪs/ — spays. It carries 10 recorded senses.
the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
“they tested his ability to locate objects in space”
“the boundless regions of the infinite”
an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
“the architect left space in front of the building”
“they stopped at an open space in the jungle”
“the space between his teeth”
an area reserved for some particular purpose
“the laboratory's floor space”
any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
“the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether”
“the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth”
the interval between two times
“the distance from birth to death”
“it all happened in the space of 10 minutes”
a blank area
“write your name in the space provided”
one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
“the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E”
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
printing
place at intervals
“Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for space come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.