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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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imminent
English
Etymology
From the present participle of Latin immin?re (“to overhang”), from mine? ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?n?nt/ or /??m?n?nt/
Adjective
imminent (comparative more imminent, superlative most imminent)
- about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
Usage notes
- Imminent and eminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in dialects with the pin-pen merger, these become homophones. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Imminent is also sometimes confused with immanent.
- Said of danger, threat and death.
Synonyms
- inevitable, immediate, impending; see also Thesaurus:impending
Derived terms
- imminence
- imminently
Related terms
- eminent
- prominent
Translations
Further reading
- imminent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- imminent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- imminent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- miniment
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin immin?ns (“projecting, overhanging; threatening, menacing”).
Adjective
imminent (masculine and feminine plural imminents)
- imminent
Derived terms
- imminentment
Related terms
- imminència
Further reading
- “imminent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “imminent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “imminent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imminent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin immin?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.mi.n??/
Adjective
imminent (feminine singular imminente, masculine plural imminents, feminine plural imminentes)
- imminent
Derived terms
- expérience de mort imminente
- imminemment
Further reading
- “imminent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
imminent
- third-person plural present active indicative of immine?
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