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Future   /fjˈutʃər/   Listen
noun
Future  n.  
1.
Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open."
2.
The possibilities of the future; used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
3.
(Gram.) A future tense.
To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. (Brokers' cant)



adjective
Future  adj.  That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.






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"Future" Quotes from Famous Books



... sailed from Boston, and, at the shortest, no vessel could expect to get away under eight or nine months, which would make our absence two years in all. This would be pretty long, but would not be fatal. It would not necessarily be decisive of my future life. But one year more might settle the matter. I might be a sailor for life; and although I had pretty well made up my mind to it before I had my letters from home, yet, as soon as an opportunity was ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... never be necessary, and which, while the inhabitants of England and Ireland are still fellow-citizens of one State, it is painful even to contemplate. On the whole, then, it appears that whatever changes or calamities the future may have in store, the maintenance of the Union is at this day the one sound policy for England to pursue. It is sound because it is expedient; it is sound ...
— England's Case Against Home Rule • Albert Venn Dicey

... the hierarchy of developed countries (DCs), former USSR/Eastern Europe (former USSR/EE), and less developed countries (LDCs); these countries are in political and economic transition and may well be grouped differently in the near future; this group of 27 countries consists of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... wicker chair ever made itself heard. As he sat alone in his room, thinking with a natural melancholy that he had seen the sun set for the last time on his student life, and reflecting on the possibilities of the future and perhaps on opportunities wasted in the past, the memory of that evening last June recurred strongly to his imagination, and he felt an irresistible impulse to play once more the "Areopagita." He unlocked ...
— The Lost Stradivarius • John Meade Falkner

... very decidedly. "There must be no borrowing from Chris. I will give you five pounds if you are wanting it, but not to buy a gun with, and only on the understanding that for the future you come to me—and never to Chris—if you chance ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell


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