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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)
future From the web:
- what future holds
- what future means
- what futures to buy
- what futures to watch
- what future career is right for me
- what features can you trade
- what future job should i have
- what futures trade 24/7
metaverse
English
Etymology
Blend of meta +? Universe
Noun
metaverse (plural metaverses)
- A set or the composite of all universes.
- 2003, Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis, page 108:
- A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent, […]
- 2003, Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis, page 108:
- (science fiction) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.
Related terms
- metauniverse
metaverse From the web:
- what metaverse week is it
- what metaverse meaning
- what is metaverse in roblox
- what does metaverse mean
- what is metaverse champions
- what is metaverse in ad connect
- what is metaverse app
- what is metaverse crypto
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