Vacuüm

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvækjuːəm/

Origin

From Dutch vacuüm, from Latin vacuum, the substantive neuter of the adjective vacuus ("empty"); spelt with a diæresis added to specify the trisyllabic pronunciation (as opposed to the disyllabic * ).

Full definition of vacuüm

Noun

1. (rare, chiefly Netherlands) Alternative spelling of vacuum
• 1996, T. A. M. Schoenmakers, Het Amerikaanse Neoconservatisme, 1968–1988, page 14Franklin Roosevelt was showing that democracy was capable of taking care of its own; the New Deal was filling the vacuüm of faith which we had inherited from the cynicism and complacency of the twenties, and from the breadlines of the early thirtees.