space – English noun declension

English noun forms of space

Noun: space
Singularspace
Pluralspaces

Sample Sentences

  • But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 347, column 2:]
  • Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all. [2001 November 3, Sam Wollaston, “Russian around”, in The Guardian:]
  • O God, I could be bounded in a nutſhell, and / count my ſelfe a King of infinite ſpace; were it not that / I haue bad dreames. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 364, column 1:]
  • They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working. [2007 May 12, Dominic Bradbury, “Lost and found - an artist's voyage from city to country”, in The Guardian:]
  • Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply. [1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, section II:]
  • These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative. [1880 August, Popular Science:]
  • The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time. [2007 April 15, Anushka Asthana, David Smith, The Observer:]
  • the first man in space
  • How firſt began this Heav'n which we behold / Diſtant ſo high, with moving Fires adornd / Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills / All ſpace, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd / Imbracing round this florid Earth, […] [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 86–90:]
  • After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition. [1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:]
  • The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today. [2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian:]
  • Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space. [1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:]
  • "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space." [2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water:]
  • Come on, thou are granted ſpace. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 245, column 2:]
  • In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp[…]. [1793, Henry Boyd, “The Royal Message”, in Poems, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, page 408:]
  • I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child. [1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey:]
  • The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so. [2007 October 20, Andy Bull, “We wozn't robbed!”, in The Guardian:]
  • But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control. [2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs. [1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
  • exhibition space; public space; the space is light-filled
  • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard. [2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender:]
  • Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms. [2012 July 16, Charlotte Higgins, “Tate Modern unlocks Tanks – and introduces live art into mainstream”, in The Guardian:]
  • The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c. [1849, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, translated by John Pyke Hullah, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing:]
  • The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G. [1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time:]
  • According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words). [1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation:]
  • It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items. [2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:]
  • If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing. [1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 240–1:]
  • Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces. [1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:]
  • Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines. [2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:]
  • Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir. [2004, Harry M Benshoff, editor, Queer Cinéma:]
  • A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be. [2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green:]
  • Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.
  • innovation in the browser space
  • CNBC has shown a greater commitment to the crypto space than most other mainstream outlets, providing daily updates on bitcoin or other very large cryptocurrencies. [2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 269:]
  • [T]hey became responsible for managing aspects of civilian labour in the medical space, and their roles were contrasted with those of the female physiotherapists in the hospital. [2020, Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control, Cambridge University Press, page 187:]
  • Communication in Internet chat spaces allows participants to communicate so freely in the relative safety of anonymity that they forget their privacy. [2007, Jacob van Kokswijk, Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity, page 88:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin spatiumbor.
3. Old French espace
4. Anglo-Norman spacebor.
5. Middle English space
6. English space
7. 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 Old English rum, whence Modern English room. See: Middle English Nouns 'space', Latin Nouns 'spatium'.

Verbs referencing "space"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns spatium.