noun

space

space, room, area, outer space

Is there enough space for my car?

Is there enough space for my car?

She wants to travel into space.

She wants to travel into space.

Write your name in the space below.

Write your name in the space below.

He learned to drive in the space of three weeks.

He learned to drive in the space of three weeks.

space for (sth.) an area for a particular purpose Is there space for one more person?

into space into the area beyond the Earth's atmosphere They sent a rocket into space.

in the space of (time) within a particular period of time He did it in the space of a week.

Synonyms: room, area, void, gap; Antonyms: confinement

From Old French 'espace', from Latin 'spatium'.

Think of the space bar on a keyboard creating a gap, or astronauts floating in outer space.

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