future

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English tōweard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːt͡ʃə/
(US) enPR: fyo͞o'chər, IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːt͡ʃɚ/
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Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

NounEdit

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.
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
  Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
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) Alternative form of futures
(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
(sports) A minor-league prospect.

Usage notesEdit

(finance): The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it.
(finance): A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in the future is called forward or forward contract.

SynonymsEdit

(time or moments yet to be experienced): to-come, toward (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:the future

Derived termsEdit

Coordinate termsEdit

(finance): forward

TranslationsEdit

the time ahead

Afrikaans: toekoms (af)
Albanian: e ardhme f
Arabic: مُسْتَقْبَل‎ m (mustaqbal)
Egyptian Arabic: مستقبل‎ m (mustaʾbal)

Hijazi Arabic: مُسْتَقْبَل‎ m (mustagbal)
Armenian: ապագա (hy) (apaga)
Assamese: ভবিষ্যৎ (bhobiissot)
Asturian: futuru m
Azerbaijani: gələcək (az)
Bashkir: киләсәк (kiläsäk)
Belarusian: бу́дучыня n (búdučynja)
Bengali: ভবিষ্যৎ (bhôbiṣjôt)
Breton: amzer-da-zont (br) f, dazont (br) m
Bulgarian: бъ́деще (bg) n (bǎ́dešte)
Burmese: အနာဂတ် (my) (a.nagat)
Catalan: avenir (ca) m, futur (ca) m
Central Mazahua: xønrꞹ
Cherokee: ᎤᏩᎫᏗᏗᏒ (uwagudidisv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 未來 (zh), 未来 (zh) (wèilái), 將來 (zh), 将来 (zh) (jiānglái)
Czech: budoucnost (cs) f
Danish: fremtid (da) c
Dutch: toekomst (nl) f
Elfdalian: framtið f
Esperanto: estonteco, estonto
Estonian: tulevik (et)
Faroese: framtíð f
Finnish: tulevaisuus (fi)
French: avenir (fr) m, futur (fr) m
Galician: futuro (gl) m
Georgian: მომავალი (momavali)
German: Zukunft (de) f
Greek: μέλλον (el) n (méllon)
Ancient: μέλλον n (méllon)
Greenlandic: siunissaq
Gujarati: ભવિષ્યકાળ (bhaviṣyakāḷ)
Hebrew: עָתִיד‎ (he) m ('atíd)
Hindi: भविष्य (hi) m (bhaviṣya)
Hungarian: jövő (hu)
Icelandic: framtíð (is) f
Ido: futuro (io)
Interlingua: futuro
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)
Kannada: ಭವಿಷ್ಯತ್ಕಾಲ (kn) (bhaviṣyatkāla)
Kazakh: келешек (keleşek), болашақ (kk) (bolaşaq)
Khmer: អនាគត (km) (ʾaʾnaakŭət)
Korean: 미래 (ko) (mirae) (未來 (ko)), 장래 (ko) (jangnae)
Kurdish:
Sorani: دواڕۆژ‎ (ku) (dwarroj), پاشەڕۆژ‎ (ku) (paşerroj)
Kyrgyz: келечек (ky) (keleçek)
Lao: ອະນາຄົດ (lo) (’a nā khot)
Latin: futūrum (la) n
Latvian: nākotne (lv)

Lithuanian: ateitis f
Low German: Tokummst, Tokunft, Taukunft ((also) Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch), Teokunft (from Enger)
Middle Low German: tokumst
Luxembourgish: Zukunft f
Macedonian: иднина f (idnina)
Malay: masa depan (ms), masa hadapan
Indonesian: masa depan
Maltese: futur, ġejjieni m
Maori: muri, āmua, anamata
Mirandese: feturo m
Mongolian: ирээдүй (mn) (ireedüj)
Navajo: neeʼnijįʼ, náásgóó
Norman: futur m
Northern Ohlone: huššištak
Northern Sami: boahttevuohta, boahtteáigi
Norwegian: framtid (no) m or f
Occitan: futur m
Old English: tōweardnes f
Old Prussian: perejīngisku f
Oriya: ଭବିଷ୍ୟତ (or) (bhôbiṣyôtô)
Persian: آینده‎ (fa) (âyande), آتیه‎ (fa) (âtiye)
Polish: przyszłość (pl) f
Portuguese: futuro (pt) m
Quechua: qhipan pacha
Romanian: viitor (ro)
Romansch: avegnir m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader), avagnir m (Sutsilvan), avigneir m (Surmiran), futur m
Russian: бу́дущее (ru) n (búduščeje), гряду́щее (ru) n (grjadúščeje) (dated or poetic)
Sanskrit: भविष्य (sa) n (bhaviṣya)
Scottish Gaelic: àm ri teachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: будућност f

Roman: budućnost (sh) f
Sicilian: futuru m
Sinhalese: ඉදිරිය (idiriya)
Slovak: budúcnosť (sk) f
Slovene: prihodnost (sl) f, bodočnost f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pśichod m

Upper Sorbian: přichod (hsb) m
Spanish: futuro (es) m, porvenir (es) m
Swedish: framtid (sv) c
Tagalog: hinaharap, kinabukasan
Tajik: оянда (tg) (oyanda)
Tamil: எதிர்காலம் (ta) (etirkālam)
Tatar: киләчәк (kiläçäq)
Telugu: భవిష్యత్తు (te) (bhaviṣyattu)
Thai: อนาคต (th) (à-naa-kót)
Turkish: gelecek (tr)
Turkmen: geljek, ýeneki
Ukrainian: майбу́тнє n (majbútnje)
Urdu: مستقبل‎ (mustaqbal)
Uzbek: kelajak (uz)
Vietnamese: tương lai (vi) (將來)
Volapük: fütür (vo)
Welsh: dyfodol (cy)
Yiddish: צוקונפֿט‎ f (tsukunft)
Yup'ik: ciunerkaq

something that will happen in moments yet to come

Afrikaans: toekoms (af)
Armenian: ապագա (hy) (apaga), գալիք (hy) (galikʿ)
Bashkir: киләсәк (kiläsäk), буласаҡ (bulasaq)
Bulgarian: бъ́деще (bg) n (bǎ́dešte), бъ́деще вре́ме n (bǎ́dešte vréme)
Catalan: futur (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 未來 (zh), 未来 (zh) (wèilái), 將來 (zh), 将来 (zh) (jiānglái)
Czech: budoucnost (cs) f
Danish: fremtid (da) c
Dutch: toekomst (nl) f
Esperanto: futuro (eo)
Finnish: tulevaisuus (fi)
French: futur (fr) m
German: Futur (de) n, Zukunft (de) f
Greek: μέλλον (el) n (méllon)

Hebrew: עתיד‎ (he) m (atíd)
Hungarian: jövő idő (hu)
Italian: futuro (it) m
Latvian: nākotne (lv) f
Norman: futur m
Norwegian: framtid (no) m or f
Polish: przyszłość (pl) f
Portuguese: futuro (pt) m
Romanian: viitor (ro)
Romansch: futur m
Russian: бу́дущее (ru) n (búduščeje)
Scottish Gaelic: àm ri teachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: будућност f

Roman: budućnost (sh) f
Slovene: prihodnost (sl) f

goodness in what is yet to come

Bulgarian: бъ́деще (bg) n (bǎ́dešte)

Finnish: tulevaisuus (fi)

grammar — see future tense

finance: agreement to sell

Bulgarian: фю́чърс m (fjúčǎrs)
Finnish: futuuri (fi)

German: Future (de) m
Russian: фью́черс (ru) m (fʹjúčers)

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Basque: ^{(please verify)} gero, ^{(please verify)} etorkizun (eu)
Ido: ^{(please verify)} futuro (io)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} masa depan
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} futuro

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} futuro (es) m
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} భవిష్యత్తు (te) (bhaviṣyattu)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} gelecek (tr)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} fütür (vo)

AdjectiveEdit

future (not comparable)

Having to do with or occurring in the future.
Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
  
  So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
  It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.
  
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