English Dictionary

future

/ˈfju.ːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

noun

The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. / Something that will happen in moments yet to come. / Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

I am excited about the future.

意味（1）

The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.

This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die.

意味（2）

Something that will happen in moments yet to come.

意味（3）

Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

意味（4）

The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.

Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways ….

意味（5）

(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.

意味（6）

(finance) Alternative form of futures

意味（7）

(computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.

意味（8）

(sports) A minor-league prospect.