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noun

a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.

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.

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a power of mind or body considered as given to a person for use and improvement: so called from the parable in Matt. 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.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English talente < Latin talenta, plural of talentum < Greek tálanton balance, weight, monetary unit

Synonyms
1. capability, gift, genius. See ability.

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They wine and dine the best and brightest students, siphoning future leaders off the top of the talent pool.

They've worked hard-investing their talent and energy-to earn it.

Now the government is trying to attract them back, and to encourage younger talent to consider a scientific career.

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They wine and dine the best and brightest students, siphoning future leaders off the top of the talent pool.

They've worked hard-investing their talent and energy-to earn it.

Now the government is trying to attract them back, and to encourage younger talent to consider a scientific career.

We've got a fantastic technical crew and on-camera talent.

Indeed, this talent makes it indispensable to all living things.

Being able to read silently to yourself was considered an amazing talent.

But the real talent inside the bun was the big, fat, juicy portabella.

Big name voice-over talent regularly adds a superstar kick to video games.

Talent agents have traditionally sought to lure away one another's high-priced clients.

Interest and talent for delivering general education courses.

Nor has the firm been helped by the defection of some of its top talent to rival arbitrageurs.

The hypergraphic patient's compulsion to write all the time is not, alas, accompanied by any increase in talent.

Seems your talent at misinterpretation isn't limited to scientific data.

He sees how the world can be made better with the strategic and daring use of time, talent and resources.

Not only does my cat enjoy boxes but he has an uncanny talent of fitting in boxes that seem impossibly tiny.

It used to be easy for recruiters to lure talent to big-name companies and hard to get them to go to no-name upstarts.

Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent.

Victoria's creative talent takes international stage.

While top talent events are ticketed, each of the sessions offers many free events, from music and drama to visual arts showings.

The scientist is made a invention to show the talent for people.

More importantly, the diary revealed a talent and depth of thought surprising in a such a young girl.

Each corner of her house displays evidence of her talent for creating an ambience both fanciful and romantic.

Having talent is not enough for young artists to get ahead today.

The university is beginning to lose talent to other places.

He was born to a farming family with a musical history and talent.

And you know, we've definitely seen the talent pool become younger and younger.

The huge amount of diverse talent in paleo-themed art and illustration today does nothing bad to science.

The talent that is recruited for this show is unbelievable.

The top male bowerbirds have what might be called artistic talent and vigorous courtship routines.

Studies of genes in people and songbirds are providing clues about how and when the remarkable human talent for speech arose.

With all that talent concentrated in one room, who knows what earthshaking ideas may have rippled forth.

Musical talent acquired at an early age is often encoded in the left hemiphere.

It's got some really solid talent behind it, but there's been next to nothing released about it so far.

Eventually they collapse with remaining talent going elsewhere to join another active center.

His talent for creative compromise repeatedly drew the nation back from sectional crisis and possible dissolution.

It does not seem to me worth it to waste their youth and talent in such a thankless place.

Parents should beware: the main ingredient in talent is dedication, and children have to supply that themselves.

And everyone benefits from that combined talent and expertise.

Firms that cannot pull off this balancing act could see an exodus of young talent once the economy improves.

Her versatility and talent enables her to sing many styles of music, and her.

Since serial murder became a form of celluloid entertainment, its busiest bogeymen have shown a talent for regeneration.

Viewers become talent scouts, hoping to see indications of promise.

Toma as a scholar who brought enormous energy and talent for challenging convention in a range of areas to produce new.

Another shift comes from companies' attempts to reconcile their desire to cut costs now with their need for talent later.

Ishmael is a singer, songwriter, producer and performer who packs a musical talent of staggering proportions.

Specifically, he has turned his talent for making cheap, easy to use gadgets.

Its rules leave little room for a market for talent.

Resurrecting these vanished people would demand a blend of scholarship and artistic talent.

Children who have a good sense of numbers also tend to have a talent for arithmetic, even before formal training.

The military's new focus on recruiting talent from high-tech companies raises a potential conflict of interest.

But times have changed, and talent agents now seek to lure rival.

To bar them from elected office would be to drain an awful lot of human talent from our public life.

Even in these difficult economic times talent is in short supply and the world's leading companies are competing fiercely for.

Twenty-first century sport is a mix of talent and technology.

He is an absolutley wonderful child with amazing artistic talent and a heart of gold.

The artist seems to be a bit of a scam artist rather than someone with real talent.

These people represented the absolute core of this company, the cream of the crop, the best talent of every business unit.

Both the need for adjuncts and the pool of available talent changes from semester to semester.

In the middle market, doing well requires a bigger dose of brains and talent.

Eventually she makes a living by using her talent of embroidery.

Nobel prize is an overhyped phenomenon which recongnizes greatness way after the world recognizes true talent.

And that meant bringing in resources and talent to help out.

But that doesn't negate his talent for mixing philosophical heft with orbital bombardment.

Such are the difficulties of spotting talent in opposition.

He grew up in a musical family and showed early signs of talent.

Singer's work and the story of the discovery of his extraordinary talent is inspiring.

Bring us a cold, sweaty canteen of talent when we're thirsty in the desert of taste.

Part of this had to do with his preternatural talent.

Talent ran for her life with only the clothes on her back.

Her versatility and talent enables her to sing many styles of music, and her stage presence makes her the complete entertainer.

Traditionally used for wrapping gifts or taping broken spectacles back together, it has another amazing talent.

Or maybe they had enough talent to shine in any light.

But cows, in particular, may have a hidden talent that far outweighs any meteorological skills.

Sunday night jam sessions bring out the best talent around for impromptu pick-up sets.

He has a special talent for creating artwork that looks as if it belongs in an earlier era.

Choose a partner who shares an interest in your topic but who also brings another talent to the table.

Now its clients are discovering that the carmaker itself has an unexpected talent for cornering markets.

But it is not the application of talent or technology that brings the joy of photography to me.

The ability to write about science, either in a published paper or a text book, is a rare talent indeed.

Thank you crocheting ladies for sharing your talent with all of us.

Most big media companies with plenty of capital and deep technical talent see few if any reasons to innovate or invest in books.

Such benefits signal the importance of diversity and maintain universities' ability to recruit from global talent pools.

With all his talent as a wordsmith, he was also a gifted cartoonist.

They're missing the true nature of skill and talent.

Perhaps that is a good thing, as too much talent can be real burden.

The secret of her talent was great pains and a remarkable.

Having the music in the background would take away from the singer's talent in these dolls.

His is a profession in which success should depend on talent alone.

To me, the question of why some people have great or no musical talent is much more interesting.

Brian is feeding us back images inspired by his culture and reinvented by his artistic talent.

He started to panic that he'd lose the melody and be haunted by it forever and his talent would be gone.

The acceptance of differences would unlock some of the talent that are being shut out.

They write well enough, but they lack the talent and the experience to make valid judgements regarding art.

He was as good a painter as the old masters, he doesn't get credit for that talent.

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World English Dictionary

talent (ˈtælənt)

—n
1.	innate ability, aptitude, or faculty, esp when unspecified; above average ability: a talent for cooking; a child with talent
2.	a person or persons possessing such ability
3.	any of various ancient units of weight and money
4.	informal members of the opposite sex collectively, esp those living in a particular place: the local talent
5.	an obsolete word for inclination

[Old English talente, from Latin talenta, pl of talentum sum of money, from Greek talanton unit of money or weight; in Medieval Latin the sense was extended to ability through the influence of the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14--30)]

'talented

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

talent

late 13c., "inclination, disposition, will, desire," from O.Fr. talent, from M.L. talenta, pl. of talentum "inclination, leaning, will, desire" (1098), in classical L. "balance, weight, sum of money," from Gk. talanton "balance, weight, sum," from PIE *tel-, *tol- "to bear, carry" (see

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extol). Originally an ancient unit of weight or money (varying greatly and attested in O.E. as talente), the M.L. and common Romanic sense developed from figurative use of the word in the sense of "money." Meaning "special natural ability, aptitude," developed mid-14c., from the parable of the talents in Matt. xxv:14-30. Related: Talented.

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Talent definition

of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as the Hebrew name _kikkar_ denotes. A talent of gold was double the weight of a talent of silver (2 Sam. 12:30). Parable of the talents (Matt. 18:24; 25:15).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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