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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishfuture,futur, fromOld Frenchfutur, fromLatinfutūrus, irregular future active participle ofsum(“I am”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰuH-(“to become, be”). Cognate withOld Englishbēo(“I become, I will be, I am”). More atbe. Displaced nativeOld Englishtōweard, which took on a different meaning astoward, andMiddle Englishafterhede(“future”, literally“afterhood”) in the given sense.

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Noun

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future (countable anduncountable,pluralfutures)

  2. Thetimeahead; thosemomentsyet to beexperienced.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Culture Codex entry:
      This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for thefuture; there will be nofuture. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."
  3. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  4. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
    There is nofuture in dwelling on the past.
    • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Itsfuture, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  5. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
    • 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, inRail, page63:
      Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, butfutures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...].
  6. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future;future tense.
  7. (finance)Alternative form offutures.
  8. (computing, programming) Anobject that retrieves the value of apromise.
  9. (sports) Aminor-leagueprospect.

Usage notes

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  • (finance): The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it.
  • (finance): A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in the future is calledforward orforward contract.

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the time ahead
something that will happen in moments yet to come
goodness in what is yet to come
grammar—seefuture tense
finance: agreement to sell
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Adjective

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future (notcomparable)

  1. Having to do with oroccurring in the future.
    Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      So this was myfuture home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, inVoice of America‎[1], archived fromthe original on7 February 2019:
      It[The study] also attempts to predict thefuture progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.

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having to do with or occurring in the future

French

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Adjective

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future

  1. femininesingular offutur

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fuˈtu.re/
  • Rhymes:-ure
  • Hyphenation:fu‧tù‧re

Adjective

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future f pl

  1. feminineplural offuturo

Latin

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Participle

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futūre

  1. vocativemasculinesingular offutūrus

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromOld Frenchfutur, fromLatinfutūrus, past participle ofsum (cognate toMiddle Englishbeen).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fiu̯ˈtiu̯r/,/ˈfiu̯tur/,/ˈfiu̯tir/

Noun

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future (pluralfutures)

  1. (rare) Afuture action or doing; that which happens in the future.
  2. (rare) The future; the time beyond thepresent.

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Adjective

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future

  1. Occurring after the present;future orupcoming.
  2. (rare, grammar) Having thefuture tense; grammatically markingfutureness.

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Norman

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Adjective

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future

  1. femininesingular offutur

Old French

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Noun

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futureoblique singular, m (oblique pluralfutures,nominative singularfutures,nominative pluralfuture)

  1. (grammar)future (tense)

Portuguese

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Verb

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future

  1. inflection offuturar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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