Future

1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
2. A future tense.
3. The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
4. That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.