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fu⋅ture
[fyoo-cher] 
–noun
| 1. | time that is to be or come hereafter. |
| 2. | something that will exist or happen in time to come: The future is rooted in the past. |
| 3. | a condition, esp. of success or failure, to come: Some people believe a gypsy can tell you your future. |
| 4. | Grammar.
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| 5. | Usually, futures. speculative purchases or sales of commodities for future receipt or delivery. |
–adjective
| 6. | that is to be or come hereafter: future events; on some future day. |
| 7. | pertaining to or connected with time to come: one's future prospects; future plans. |
| 8. | Grammar. noting or pertaining to a tense or other verb formation or construction that refers to events or states in time to come. |
Origin:
1325–75; ME futur AF, OF < L fūtūrus about to be (fut. participle of esse to be)
1325–75; ME futur AF, OF < L fūtūrus about to be (fut. participle of esse to be)
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| fu·ture (fyōō'chər) n.
[Middle English, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, about to be; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Future
Fu"ture\ (?; 135), a. [F. futur, L. futurus, used as fut. p. of esse to be, but from the same root as E. be. See Be, v. i.] That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.Future
Fu"ture\, n. [Cf. F. futur. See Future, a.]1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." --Shak. 2. The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him. 3. (Gram.) A future tense. To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]
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Language Translation for : future
Spanish:
futuro,
German:
die Zukunft,(zu-)künftig,
Japanese:
未来
future (adj.)
c.1374, from O.Fr. futur, from L. futurus "about to be," irregular suppletive future participle of esse "to be." The n. is modeled on L. futura, neut. pl. of futurus. As a movement in the arts, futurism is from It. futurismo, coined 1909 by It. poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944). Futuristic first attested 1915 in the futurism sense; as "of or pertaining to the future" it is attested from 1958.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: fu·ture
Function: noun
: a contract traded on an exchange in which a party agrees to buy or sell a quantity of a bulk commodity (as soybeans) at a specified future date and at a set price —usually used in pl.
NOTE: If the price of the commodity has gone up when the future date arrives, the buyer in the contract profits. If the price has gone down, the seller profits.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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future
see in the near future.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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