future

noun

• 1 (usually the future) the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come:we plan on getting married in the near future work on the building will be halted for the foreseeable future
• events that will or are likely to happen in the time to come:nobody can predict the future
• used to refer to what will happen to someone or something in the time to come:a blueprint for the future of American fast food
• a prospect of success or happiness:he’d decided that there was no future in the gang I began to believe I might have a future as an artist
• Grammar a tense of verbs expressing events that have not yet happened.

• 2 (futures) Financeshort for futures contract.

adjective

• at a later time; going or likely to happen or exist:the needs of future generations
• (of a person) planned or destined to hold a specified position:his future wife
• existing after death:expectation of a future life
• Grammar (of a tense) expressing an event yet to happen.