talent
Syllables: tal·entUK/ˈtæl.ənt/
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British/ˈtal.ənt/
talent noun: a marked natural ability or skill.
Noun
talent (countable and uncountable, plural talents)
- A marked natural ability or skill.
- He has a real talent for drawing.
- Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.1936 February 15, Ernest Hemingway, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor...
- Synonyms:
- endowment, gift, ability, technique, aptitude, capacity, craft, capability, competency, competence
- People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
- The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
- And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.2025 October 4, Maureen Dowd, “When A.I. Came for Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2025
- One, especially a woman, from a particular place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
- Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.
- I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach.2011, Nic Venter, Wow! What a Life!, page 179
- A historical unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
- For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew XXV:14-15
- A desire or inclination for something.
Proper noun capitalized: Talent
Talent
- A city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
talent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
talent in Hindi
- marked ability or skill
- प्रतिभा pratibhā
talent in Tamil
- marked ability or skill
- திறமை tiṟamai
talent in Marathi
- प्रतिभा, प्रतिभेची, प्रतिभेचा
talent in Urdu
- فطری استعداد, فطری صلاحیت, خصلت, ذوق, ذہانت
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- talent in Bengali
- প্রতিভা protibha
- talent in Telugu
- సామర్థ్యము sāmarthyamu, ప్రతిభ pratibha, బుద్ధిశక్తి buddhiśakti, ధీశక్తి dhīśakti
- talent in Malayalam
- കഴിവ് kaḻivŭ
- talent in Kannada
- ಹುಟ್ಟಳವು, ಹುಟ್ಟುಜಾಣ್ಮೆ
- talent in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਤਿਭਾ
- talent in Gujarati
- પ્રતિભા
- talent in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିଭା
- talent in Sanskrit
- गुण guṇa
- talent in Nepali
- प्रतिभा
- talent in Tagalog
- talento, may talihilig, katalihiligan
- talent in Arabic
- مَوْهِبَة mawhiba
- talent in Malay
- bakat
- talent in Indonesian
- bakat, talenta
- talent in Thai
- พรสวรรค์ pɔɔn-sà-wǎn, ตะลันต์
- talent in Vietnamese
- tài năng
Examples of talent in a sentence
- Stevie intends to burp the alphabet at the school talent show.
- Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.
- This festival is an excellent chance to see new talent aborning.
Synonyms of talent
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Forms of talent
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Origin of talent
From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Compare Old High German talenta (“talent”). Later figurative senses are from Old French talent (“talent, will, inclination, desire”), derived from the biblical Parable of the Talents.
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Questions about talent
- What does talent mean?
- Talent means a marked natural ability or skill.
- What is talent in Hindi?
- Talent in Hindi is प्रतिभा (pratibhā). See Talent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is talent?
- Talent can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce talent?
- Talent is pronounced /ˈtæl.ənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of talent?
- The plural of talent is talents.
Words near talent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: talent (page history and authors); Talent (page history and authors); talent (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); talent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রতিভা (Bengali) (page history and authors); talent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); talent (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); talent (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); talent (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); talent (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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