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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.
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 two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
A desire or inclination for something.
People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
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 men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.
I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach.
name
A city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.