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talent
[ tal-uhnt ]
noun
- a special natural ability or aptitude:
a talent for drawing.
Synonyms: genius, gift, capability
- a capacity for achievement or success; ability:
young men of talent.
- a talented person:
The cast includes many of the theater's major talents.
- a group of persons with special ability:
an exhibition of watercolors by the local talent.
- Movies and Television. professional actors collectively, especially star performers.
- a power of mind or body considered as given to a person for use and improvement: so called from the parable in Matthew 25:14–30.
- any of various ancient units of weight, as a unit of Palestine and Syria equal to 3000 shekels, or a unit of Greece equal to 6000 drachmas.
- any of various ancient Hebrew or Attic monetary units equal in value to that of a talent weight of gold, silver, or other metal.
- Obsolete. inclination or disposition.
talent
/ ˈtælənt /
noun
- innate ability, aptitude, or faculty, esp when unspecified; above average ability
a talent for cooking
a child with talent
- a person or persons possessing such ability
- any of various ancient units of weight and money
- informal.members of the opposite sex collectively, esp those living in a particular place
the local talent
- an obsolete word for inclination
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Derived Forms
- ˈtalented, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
There was so much beauty, talent, potential, and most importantly, honesty in your work.
That meant the talent that DJ Brinsely hired that night performed for a skeleton audience.
Baseball has long been the most popular sport in Cuba and the island has long been a hotbed of baseball talent.
There may be no entrapped pool of human talent left on earth with the dollar value of Cuban athletes.
The influx of talent behind the tables and in the showrooms was undeniable.
A great-granddaughter of Fragonard, she seems to have inherited his talent; Corot and Renoir forcibly appealed to her.
Baroness Schopenhauer died at Jena; a woman of talent and celebrity, and author of various works, which were collected in 24 vols.
After the first exhibition of her pictures in Berlin, her "God-given talent" was several times mentioned by the art critics.
I suppose he thought he would live again in him, for he always says, "Never did such talent come under my hands."
His pupils paid each a talent a year for instruction; and Melanthius, and even Apelles himself, for a time, were among the number.
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