talent

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  1. noun A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. See Synonyms at ability.
  2. noun Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.
  3. noun A person or group of people having such ability: The company makes good use of its talent.
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  • He's got to reduce his walks - and his LOB\% is extremely unsustainable - but the talent is there. —  Bay City Ball
  • We all agree with that, but I am absolutely convinced that a wider appreciation of his talent is a matter of the nearest future, Daniel Day-Lewis being a very good example. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • No question the talent is here, now it's up to Tony Romo and Wade Phillips. —  FOXSports.com News
  • And there's no arguing the talent is there for UL to go on a run. —  theadvertiser.com -
  • While it didn't receive the quite the same attention, the talent was actually more impressive. —  SLAM Online
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ability ·  genius ·  intelligence ·  courage ·  gift ·  quality ·  faculty ·  taste ·  resource ·  beauty ·  achievement ·  success

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  1. Middle English, inclination, disposition, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, balance, sum of money, from Greek talanton; see telə- in Indo-European roots. Sense 3, Middle English, from Old English talente, from Latin talenta, pl. of talentum, from Greek talanton.

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  1. from Middle English talent, from Old French talent, a talent, also will, inclination, desire, French talent, a talent, also ability, a man of ability, = Provencal talen, talant, talan, a talent, also will, inclination, desire, = Spanish Portuguese Italian talento, a talent, also will, inclination, desire, = D. G. Swedish Danish talent, gift, endowment, = Irish talaint, a talent, tallan, Gaelic talann, a talent, faculty, from Latin talentum, a Grecian weight, a talent of money, Middle Latin also will, inclination, desire, from Greek τάλαντον, a balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, a sum of money, a talent (see def.), from √ ταλ, τλα, lift, bear, weigh, as in τλῆναι, bear, suffer, τλήμων, miserable, πολύτλας, much-suffering, *Ατλας, Atlas (see Atlas), Latin tollere, lift, tolerare, bear (see tolerate), Sanskrit tulā, a balance, weight, tulana, lifting, √ tul, lift, weigh. The deflected uses of the word in Middle Latin and Roman are due in part to the fig. sense ‘wealth,’ and in part to the sense ‘gift, endowment,’ suggested by the parable of the talents (Mat. xxv.).
 

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