vacuum

1. 1.

   clean with a vacuum cleaner

   “vacuum the carpets”

   Synonymsvacuum-cleanhoover

   Broaderclean

Other forms of vacuum

plural

vacua

past tense

vacuumed·

present participle

vacuuming·

third person

vacuums·

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.

Questions about vacuum

What does vacuum mean?

vacuum means "the absence of matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vacuum?

vacuum has 2 syllables: vac-uum. The stress falls on "vac". In IPA it is /ˈvækjum/.

What is another word for vacuum?

Close synonyms include vacuity, void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vacuum a common word?

vacuum is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.