future

  1. Noun.  The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  2. Noun.  Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  3. Noun.  Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look foreward to.
  4. Noun.  (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  5. Noun.  (finance, in plural) Commodities or stocks bought or sold with the understanding that they will be delivered at a date beyond the current one.
  6. Adjective.  Having to do with or occurring in the future.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.