Other forms: spaces
Space is the endless emptiness beyond the sky where the stars are. Outer space, travel in space, the space station.
The boundary is conventionally the Kármán line, a hundred kilometres up. Space is also room: make space, a parking space, not enough space. And it means a gap in writing: a space between words. Note personal space; give somebody space, meaning to leave them alone; watch this space; and that in space nobody can hear anything, because sound needs a medium.
1nounspaceThe emptiness beyond the sky where the stars are.
“Space begins about a hundred kilometres up by convention.”
synonyms: outer space
2nounroomRoom, or a gap.
“There's enough space in the car for one more suitcase.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
space is emptiness or room.
Also accepted in games: outer space
Latin spatium meant an area or an interval of time, from a root meaning to stretch. Space meant a stretch of time before it meant a stretch of anything else, which survives in the phrase in the space of an hour.
Anglo-Norman
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Middle English
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English, today
space
From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, from espace. From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas, et al.; and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European (s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”). Partially displaced native rum, whence Modern English room.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA