future

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The time that is still to come.

   We need to plan carefully for the future.

2. 2
   adj

   Happening or existing in the time to come.

   Future generations will judge our choices.

3. 3
   noun

   What is likely to happen to someone or something in the time to come.

   This young player has a bright future ahead of her.

4. 4
   adj

   (grammar) referring to events that have not yet happened.

   "Will go" is the future tense of the verb "go."

From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“to become, will be; to be”). More at be. Doublet of futur. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.

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