future

future
noun
1》 (the future) time that is still to come.
    ↘events or conditions that will or are likely to occur at a later date.
2》 a prospect of success or happiness: I might have a future as an artist.
3》 Grammar a tense of verbs expressing events that have not yet happened.
4》 (futures) contracts for assets (especially commodities or shares) bought at agreed prices but delivered and paid for later. Compare with forward (in sense 2).
adjective
1》 existing or occurring in the future.
    ↘planned or destined to hold a specified position: his future wife.
2》 Grammar (of a tense) expressing an event yet to happen.
Phrases
in future from now onwards.
Derivatives
futureless adjective
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. futurus, future participle of esse 'be' (from the stem fu-, ult. from a base meaning 'grow, become').

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