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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)

1. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
3. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

4. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
5. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
6. (finance) Alternative form of futures
7. (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
8. (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)

1. 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

1. feminine singular of futur

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

future

1. feminine plural of futuro

Latin

Participle

fut?re

1. 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)

1. (rare) A future action or doing; that which happens in the future.
2. (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

1. Occurring after the present; future or upcoming.
2. (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

1. feminine singular of futur

Old French

Noun

future m (oblique plural futures, nominative singular futures, nominative plural future)

1. (grammar) future (tense)

English

Etymology

From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t?u?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??t??n/, /?f??t?un/

Noun

fortune (countable and uncountable, plural fortunes)

1. Destiny, especially favorable.
   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Mistress (“My Fate”):

     you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act 2, Scene 3:

     'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

5. Good luck.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3:

     There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

6. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.

7. A large amount of money.

Synonyms

• (the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner): hap, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (one's wealth): riches; see also Thesaurus:wealth

Antonyms

• (good luck): doom, misfortune

Derived terms

Related terms

• fortuitous
• fortuity

Translations

Verb

fortune (third-person singular simple present fortunes, present participle fortuning, simple past and past participle fortuned)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:

     Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
2. To provide with a fortune.
   • 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

     When the broken-fortuned peer goes into the city to marry a rich tradesman's daughter , be he duke or earl , does not his consort immediately become ennobled by his choice ?

3. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ten-four

French

Etymology

From Middle French fortune, from Old French fortune, borrowed from Latin fort?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.tyn/

Noun

fortune f (plural fortunes)

1. fortune

   faire une fortune

   make a fortune

   faire fortune

   make a fortune

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fortune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [for?t?u?.ne]
• Rhymes: -une

Noun

fortune f

1. plural of fortuna

Anagrams

• funtore

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna.

Noun

fortune (plural fortunes)

1. fortune (fate, chance)

Descendants

• English: fortune
  • ? Welsh: ffortiwn
• Scots: fortuin

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fortune, borrowed from Latin fortuna.

Noun

fortune f (plural fortunes)

1. fortune (fate, chance)

Descendants

• French: fortune