BLANK SPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blank space mean? 

• BLANK SPACE (noun)
  The noun BLANK SPACE has 1 sense:

1. a blank area

  Familiarity information: BLANK SPACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLANK SPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blank area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

blank space; place; space

Context example:

write your name in the space provided

Hypernyms ("blank space" is a kind of...):

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blank space"):

margin (the blank space that surrounds the text on a page)

indent; indentation; indention; indenture (the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line)

Holonyms ("blank space" is a part of...):

form (a printed document with spaces in which to write)

 Context examples 

If our offer is agreeable to you, please fill in the proper blank space with the title of your book.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What yawns and dozes I lapsed into, in spite of all my care; what starts I came out of concealed sleeps with; what answers I never got, to little observations that I rarely made; what a blank space I seemed, which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's way; what a heavy relief it was to hear Miss Murdstone hail the first stroke of nine at night, and order me to bed!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He signed the new contract, inserting The Smoke of Joy in the blank space, and mailed it back to the publishers along with the twenty storiettes he had written in the days before he discovered the formula for the newspaper storiette.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)