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tal⋅ent⋅ed

  [tal-uhn-tid]
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–adjective
having talent or special ability; gifted.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME: inclined, disposed; see talent, -ed 3
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tal·ent   (tāl'ənt)   
n.  
  1. A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. See Synonyms at ability.
    1. Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.
    2. A person or group of people having such ability: The company makes good use of its talent.
  3. A variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East.

[Middle English, inclination, disposition, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, balance, sum of money, from Greek talanton; see telə- in Indo-European roots. Sense 3, Middle English, from Old English talente, from Latin talenta, pl. of talentum, from Greek talanton.]
tal'ent·ed adj., tal'ent·less adj., tal'ent·less·ness n.
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Talented

Tal"ent*ed\, a. Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. --Abp. Abbot (1663).

Note: This word has been strongly objected to by Coleridge and some other critics, but, as it would seem, upon not very good grounds, as the use of talent or talents to signify mental ability, although at first merely metaphorical, is now fully established, and talented, as a formative, is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted, bigoted, moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and numerous other adjectives having a participal form, but derived directly from nouns and not from verbs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : talented
Spanish: talentoso,
German: talentiert,
Japanese: 才能のある
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