n.
  - natural aptitude or skill. 
▸people possessing natural aptitude or skill.
 ▸Brit. informal people regarded as sexually attractive or as prospective sexual partners.
 - a former weight and unit of currency used by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
 
 
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  Etymology
  OE talente, talentan (as a unit of weight), from L. talenta, pl. of talentum ‘weight, sum of money’, from Gk talanton.