OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2377

talent

/ˈtælənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
talento
A marked natural ability or skill.
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.
He has a real talent for drawing.
talento
A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in 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 t…
talentoso • talentosos
People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
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.
The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
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