English - Etymology

From Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhū-, *bʰew- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English toweard in the given sense.

English - Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːtʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːtʃɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

English - 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.

   There is no future in dwelling on the past.

4. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
5. (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.

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 future is called forward or forward contract.

Coordinate terms

• (finance): forward

Translations

English - Adjective

future (comparative more future, superlative most future)

1. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

   Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.

   • 1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein, chapterIV:

     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.

Translations

Derived terms

• futurism
• futurist
• futuristic
• retro future

French - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.tyʁ/
• Homophones: futur, futurs, futures

French - Adjective

future

1. feminine form of futur

Italian - Adjective

future f pl

1. feminine plural of futuro

Jèrriais - Adjective

future f

1. feminine form of futur

Latin - Participle

futūre

1. vocative masculine singular of futūrus

Old French - Noun

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

1. (grammar) future (tense)

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