different between future vs tomorrow

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

Alternative forms

• to-morrow (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from Old English t?morgen, t? morgenne, t?mergen (“tomorrow”, adverb), from t? (“at, on”) + morgene, mergen (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- +? morrow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??m????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??m????/, /t??m????/
• (Boston) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/, /t??m??o?/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /t??m???/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/
• Rhymes: -????

Adverb

tomorrow (not comparable)

1. On the day after the present day.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree

     It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

2. At some point in the future; later on

   If you don't get your life on track today, you're going to be very sorry tomorrow.

3. (possibly obsolete) On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
   • 1664 March 28, debate in Great Britain's House of Commons, printed in 1803 in the Journals of the House of Commons, page 538:

     Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.

   • 1840, Melancholy Death of Amelia V, in The Christian Guardian (and Church of England magazine), page 60:

     'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'

4. (obsolete) On the next day (following some date in the past).
   • 1717 October 8, Robert Wodrow, in a letter to Mr. James Hart, printed in 1828, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, page xxii:

     To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]

   • 1817, James Kirkton, The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, page 126:

     […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.

Antonyms

• yesterday

Translations

Noun

tomorrow (plural tomorrows)

1. The day after the present day.

Synonyms

• morrow

Antonyms

• yesterday

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• last night
• nudiustertian
• overmorrow
• today
• tonight
• yesterday
• tomorrower
• tomorrowness

Anagrams

• moorwort, rootworm, wormroot

Middle English

Adverb

tomorrow

1. Alternative form of tomorwe

Noun

tomorrow (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tomorwe