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Future   /fjˈutʃər/   Listen
Future

noun
1.
The time yet to come.  Synonyms: futurity, hereafter, time to come.
2.
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future.  Synonym: future tense.
3.
Bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date.
adjective
1.
Yet to be or coming.
2.
Effective in or looking toward the future.
3.
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving.  Synonyms: next, succeeding.
4.
A verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened.



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"Future" Quotes from Famous Books



... do so, because you are young; but I, sire, have not time to wait; old age is at my door, and death is behind it, looking into the very depths of my house. Your majesty is beginning life, its future is full of hope and fortune; but I, sire, I am on the other side of the horizon, and we are so far from each other, that I should never have time to wait till your majesty came up ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... hideous, fascinating nightmare, of being dragged through some dreadful probation from which she would presently emerge to ascend to the position she would have earned by her desperate fortitude. The past—unreal. The present—a waking dream. But the future—ah, ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... eyes, as personal visits would have done; and old Lady Ashby's haughty, sour spirit of reserve withheld her from spreading the news, while her indifferent health prevented her coming to visit her future daughter-in-law; so that, altogether, this affair was kept far closer than such ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can!" No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But yet might rise and be again a man. Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past And find the future's pages white as snow. Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell! Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven! Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell, Each night a star to guide thy feet ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... he station a whole company at the post? This would doubtless prevent further loss; but then it was little likely to explain the mystery; for the hands that had carried off three sentinels, would, it was reasonable to believe, make no attempt to spirit away a whole company of men. And for future action as well as to put an end to the superstitious terror of the soldiery, the vital necessity was to clear up the mystery. He had no belief in the theory that these men deserted. He knew them too well. He prided himself mat he was thoroughly acquainted with his ...
— The Junior Classics • Various


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