Associations to the word «Provident»

Wiktionary

PROVIDENT, adjective. Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.
PROVIDENT FUND, noun. Pension fund

Dictionary definition

PROVIDENT, adjective. Providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education".
PROVIDENT, adjective. Careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope