Dictionary Definition
talent
Noun
2 a person who possesses unusual innate ability
in some field or activity
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Etymology
Latin talentum, "sum of money", Greek τάλαντος, "balance", "weight", "sum". The figurative meanings 2. and 3. come from Matt. XXV 14-30.Noun
- a unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
- a marked ability or
skill.
- He has the talent of touching his nose with his tongue.
- the potential or
factual ability to perform a skill better than most people.
- She has a talent to sing.
- Also used jocularly, as: He has a talent for getting into trouble.
- She has a talent to sing.
- attractive man or woman.
Translations
marked ability or skill
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 才能 (cáinéng)
- Czech: talent
- Dutch: talent
- Finnish: kyky
- French: talent
- Greek: τάλαντο (tála[n]do) , ταλέντο (talé[n]do) , προσόν (prosón) , χάρισμα (khárizma) , προτέρημα (protérima) , αρετή (aretí)
- Hebrew: כשרון (kisharón)
- Indonesian: bakat
- Italian: talento
- Japanese: 才能 (さいのう, sainō)
- Korean: 재능 (jaeneung)
- Malayalam: കഴിവ് (kazhivu)
- Norwegian: talent
- Portuguese: talento
- Russian: талант (talánt)
- Slovene: talent
- Spanish: talento
- Swedish: talang
potential or factual ability to perform a skill
better than most people
Czech
Synonyms
- (ability): nadání
Dutch
Noun
talentPolish
Pronunciation
Declension
Extensive Definition
Talent may refer to:
- Talent, a personal gift/skill
- A show-business personality or group of them
- Tarento, the Japanese pronunciation of the word; a variety entertainment personality in Japan
- Talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses
- Talent manager (or personal manager), one who guides the career of artists in the entertainment business
- Talent scout, responsible for finding and developing talent
- Talent show, a live performance spectacle (sometimes on TV) where contestants perform acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics and other art forms
- Talent Zoo (or TalentZoo.com), a recruitment company and job search engine specializing in the communications industry, including the advertising, marketing, public relations, broadcasting, and publishing sectors
- Fresh Talents Music Project, a new education project based in Rijeka, Croatia
- Talent (train), a model of train manufactured by Bombardier
- Talent (unit), an ancient unit of weight and currency
People
- Jim Talent (born 1956), American politician, former Senator from Missouri
- José Luis Hinojosa aka Talent, Spanish curler, member of Curling club Priapismus
Talent in Business
Places
- Talent, Oregon, a city in the United States
Entertainment
- Talent, a 1978 play by Victoria Wood
- America's Got Talent, American television show on NBC
- Billy Talent, a Canadian rock group from Toronto
- Young Talent Time (1971-1989), Australian television variety program on Network Ten
talent in Czech: Talent
talent in German: Talent
talent in French: Talent
talent in Korean: 탤런트
talent in Italian: Talento
talent in Dutch: Talent
talent in Polish: Talent
talent in Russian: Талант (значения)
talent in Slovak: Talent
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Geist,
Muse, ability, ableness, acuity, acuteness, adequacy, adroitness, afflatus, aptitude, aptness, art, artistic skill, artistry, arty-craftiness,
bent, braininess, brightness, brilliance, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, child prodigy, clear
thinking, cleverness,
competence, craft, creative thought, creativity, daemon, daimonion, demon, dexterity, divine afflatus,
dower, dowry, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, equipment, esprit, expertise, facility, faculty, fire of genius,
fitness, flair, forte, genius, gift, gifted child, gifted person,
giftedness, gifts, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, instinct, intellectual genius,
intellectual prodigy, keen-wittedness, keenness, knack, long suit, makings, man of parts, mental
alertness, mental genius, mental giant, mercurial mind, metier, native cleverness,
natural, natural
endowment, natural gift, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nose, nous, parts, penchant, potential, power, powers, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, prodigy, proficiency, propensity, qualification, quick
parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, ready wit, savvy, set, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, skill, smartness, smarts, soul, speciality, spirit, sprightly wit, strength, strong flair, strong
point, sufficiency,
susceptibility,
talents, tendency, the goods, the stuff,
turn, virtu, what it
takes