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Etymology
From Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhū-, *bʰew- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be.
Pronunciation
Noun
future (countable and uncountable; plural futures)
- The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
- Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
- Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
- There is no future in dwelling on the past.
- (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
- (finance) An agreement between two parties that one will sell the other a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Usage notes
- (finance): The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it.
Coordinate terms
Translations
The time ahead
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: toekoms (af)
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: مستقبل (ar) (mustáqbal)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ապագա (hy) (apaga)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: futuru (ast) m
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: gələcək (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: будучыня (be) (búdučynja) n
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: amzer-da-zont (br) f, dazont (br) m
- Bulgarian: бъдеще (bg) (bǎ̀dešte) n
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: futur (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎤᏩᎫᏗᏗᏒ (chr) (uwagudidisv)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 未來 (cmn), 未来 (cmn) (wèilái), 將來 (cmn), 将来 (cmn) (jiānglái)
- Czech: budoucnost (cs) f
- Danish: fremtid (da) c
- Dutch: toekomst (nl) f
- Esperanto: estonteco (eo), estonto (eo)
- Estonian: tulevik (et)
- Faroese: framtíð (fo) f
- Finnish: tulevaisuus (fi)
- French: avenir (fr) m, futur (fr) m
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: futuro (gl) m
- Georgian: მომავალი (ka) (momavali)
- German: Zukunft (de) f
- Greek: μέλλον (el) (méllon) n
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: עתיד (he) (atíd) m
- Hindi: भविष्य (hi) (bhaviṣya) m
- Hungarian: jövő (hu)
- Icelandic: framtíð (is)
- Ido: futuro (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: futuro (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: todhchaí (ga) f
- Italian: futuro (it), avvenire (it)
- Japanese: 未来 (ja) (みらい, mirai), 将来 (ja) (しょうらい, shōrai)
- Jèrriais: futur m
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: келешек (kk) (keleşek) , болашақ (kk) (bolaşaq)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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- Korean: 미래 (ko) (mirae) (未來 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: دواڕۆژ, پاشهڕۆژ
- Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: futūrum (la) n
- Latvian: nākotne (lv)
- Lithuanian: ateitis (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: иднина (mk) (idnina) f
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: framtid (no) m and f
- Occitan: futur (oc) m
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آینده (fa) (âyande)
- Polish: przyszłość (pl) f
- Portuguese: futuro (pt), vindouro (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: viitor (ro)
- Romansch: avegnir (rm) m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader), avagnir (rm) m (Sutsilvan), avigneir (rm) m (Surmiran), futur (rm) m
- Russian: будущее (ru) (búduščeje) n , грядущее (ru) (grjadúščeje) n (dated or poetic)
- Sanskrit: भविष्य (sa) (bhaviṣya)
- Scottish Gaelic: àm ri teachd (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: будућност (sh) f
- Roman: budućnost (sh) f
- Sicilian: futuru (scn) m
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: budúcnosť (sk) f
- Slovene: prihodnost (sl) f, bodočnost (sl) f
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pśichod m
- Spanish: futuro (es) m, venidero (es) m, porvenir (es) m
- Swedish: framtid (sv) c
- Tagalog: hinaharap (tl), kinabukasan (tl)
- Tajik: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: భవిష్యత్తు (te) (bhaviṣyattu)
- Thai: อนาคต (th) (anaakót)
- Turkish: gelecek (tr)
- Turkmen: ýeneki (tk)
- Ukrainian: майбутнє (uk) (majbútnje) n
- Urdu: بهوشيه (ur) (bhaviṣya)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: tương lai (vi) (將來 (vi))
- Volapük: fütür (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: צוקונפֿט (yi) (tsukunft) f
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Something that will happen in moments yet to come
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Adjective
future (comparative more future, superlative most future)
- Having to do with or occurring in the future.
- Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
Translations
Having to do with or occurring in the future
Derived terms
