talent
//ˈtæl.ənt//
Forms
- Plural
- talents
Definitions
1.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.
2.One, especially a woman, from a particular place or area, judged by their attractiveness.(slang)
- 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.
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1999
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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”).