future

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2. (countable, uncountable)Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
3. (countable, uncountable)Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

   “There is no future in dwelling on the past.”

   “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.”

4. (countable, uncountable)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 [...].”

5. (countable, uncountable)Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
6. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of futures.
7. (countable, uncountable)An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
8. (countable, uncountable)A minor-league prospect.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having to do with or occurring in the future.

   “Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.”

   “So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

   “It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.”