future
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈfjuːtʃər/
- Specialized
:
futuro
- Camille thanked her politely and said that wouldn't be necessary; in the future, she would leave her sweater at home.
- future tense
- use of the future
- present and future
Examples
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The activities must be stated in the future tense.
Academic text (2012) -
And I will even more so in the future.
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I think in the future that people will want to pursue that as a technology.
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In the future, we will study pressure gradients in the ductal system.
Academic text (1999) -
We speak in the future tense, our sentences tagged with the word someday.
Fiction book (1996) -
When assigning this project in the future, we will add a component of candidate-generated research.
Academic text (2006) -
In the future, we will have flying cars that make travel much faster than today.
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She said that if we work hard now, we can achieve a better future for ourselves.
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The teacher explained that the future tense is used to describe actions that will happen later.
Synonyms
2
2.8
A verb form that shows an action will happen later
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.5
A verb form showing an action will be finished before a future time
- Specialized
A verb form that shows an action will finish before a future time
- Specialized
A verb tense that shows an action will be happening at a future time
- Specialized
A verb form showing an action that will be happening at a certain time in the future
Surface Forms
Etymology
Future comes from the Latin futurus 'going to be' (from esse 'to be'). That is why the future tense is the verb form we use, often with 'will', to show actions that will 'be' later.