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future
English
Etymology
From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin fut?rus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English b?o (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English t?weard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fju?t???/
- (US) enPR: fyo?o'ch?r, IPA(key): /?fju?t???/
- Rhymes: -u?t??(?)
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.
- The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
- (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 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.
- (finance): A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in the future is called forward or forward contract.
Synonyms
- (time or moments yet to be experienced): to-come, toward (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:the future
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
- (finance): forward
Translations
Adjective
future (not comparable)
- Having to do with or occurring in the future.
- 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.
Synonyms
- unborn; see also Thesaurus:future
Translations
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.ty?/
- Homophones: futur, futurs, futures
Adjective
future
- feminine singular of futur
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Adjective
future
- feminine plural of futuro
Latin
Participle
fut?re
- vocative masculine singular of fut?rus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- futur, ffutur, futire
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French futur, from Latin fut?rus, past participle of sum (cognate to Middle English been).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiu??tiu?r/, /?fiu?tur/, /?fiu?tir/
Noun
future (plural futures)
- (rare) A future action or doing; that which happens in the future.
- (rare) The future; the time beyond the present.
Descendants
- English: future
- Scots: futur
References
- “f?t?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Adjective
future
- Occurring after the present; future or upcoming.
- (rare, grammar) Having the future tense; grammatically marking futureness.
Descendants
- English: future
- Scots: futur
References
- “f?t?r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Norman
Adjective
future
- feminine singular of futur
Old French
Noun
future m (oblique plural futures, nominative singular futures, nominative plural future)
- (grammar) future (tense)
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fate
English
Etymology
From Latin fata (“prediction”), plural of fatum, from fatus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). Displaced native Old English wyrd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Synonyms
- destiny
- doom
- fortune
- kismet
- lot
- necessity
- orlay
- predestination
- wyrd
Antonyms
- choice
- free will
- freedom
- chance
Derived terms
- fatal
- fatalism
- fatality
- tempt fate
Related terms
- amor fati (Amor fati)
Translations
See also
- determinism
- indeterminism
Verb
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
Translations
Anagrams
- EFTA, TAFE, TFAE, feat, feat., feta
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fa?.t?e], /?fate/
- Hyphenation: fà?te
Verb
fate
- inflection of fare:
- second-person plural indicative present
- second-person plural imperative
Noun
fate f
- plural of fata
Anagrams
- afte
Latin
Participle
f?te
- vocative masculine singular of f?tus
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??a.t?]
- Hyphenation: fa?te
Verb
fate
- (transitive) to hit
- (intransitive) to hit
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fat)
- Alternative form of fata
Anagrams
- EFTA, efta, feta
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?t/
Noun
fate
- feat
Volapük
Noun
fate
- dative singular of fat
Yamdena
Alternative forms
- fat
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fate
- Alternative form of fat
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