talent
Other forms: talents
If you are especially good at something, you have a talent. You can have a talent for singing or a talent for getting others to talk about themselves. People who work in creative professions are often called "the talent."
In Biblical times, a talent was a unit of money, and a New Testament parable tells of a master punishing a servant for hiding, rather than investing, a bag of talents in the master's absence. The interpretation of this parable to mean that you should not hide your "God-given talents" has led to the current meaning of the word as the special qualities a person possesses.
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natural abilities or qualities
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synonyms:
endowment, gift, natural endowment
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types:
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bent, hang, knack
a special way of doing something
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flair, genius
a natural talent
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raw talent
powerfully impressive talent
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type of:
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natural ability
ability that is inherited
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bent, hang, knack
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a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
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an ancient unit of weight and currency
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