space

1. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.Examples: "But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make ſpace enough betweene you."; "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."Synonyms: break, gap, break, gap, interlapse, interspace, interstice, interstitiumcountableuncountable

2. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.Examples: "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."; "They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working."Synonyms: area, volumecountableuncountable

3. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.Examples: "Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply."; "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."; "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."countableuncountable

4. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.Examples: "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, […]"; "After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition."Synonyms: outer spacecountableuncountable

5. (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.Examples: "Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space."; ""I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space.""countableuncountable

6. (heading) Of time.Examples: "Come on, thou are granted ſpace."; "In two days hence / The Judge of life and death aſcends his ſeat. / —This will afford him ſpace to reach the camp[…]."Synonyms: leisure time, spare timearchaiccountableuncountable