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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
talent/ˈtalənt/

▶noun

1 natural aptitude or skill.
■ people possessing natural aptitude or skill.

■ Brit. informal people regarded as sexually attractive or as prospective sexual partners.

2 a former weight and unit of currency used by the ancient Romans and Greeks.

– derivatives
talentless adjective.

– origin OE talente, talentan (as a unit of weight), from L. talenta, pl. of talentum ‘weight, sum of money’, from Gk talanton.

'talent' also found in these Oxford entries:

ability - bent - bird dog - charisma - charismatic - creation - engine - faculty - flair - flare - giant - gift - grace - hot stuff - inartistic - incline - latent - magic - modicum - natural - nose - one-trick pony - prove - rot - scout - shtick - talent scout - verve - way - X factor

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