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forever
English
Alternative forms
- for ever
Etymology
From Middle English for ever, for evere, equivalent to for +? ever.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f????v?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /f????v?/, [f????v?], [f???v?], [f????v?]
- Rhymes: -?v?(r)
Adverb
forever (not comparable)
- (duration) For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
- I shall love you forever.
- (duration, colloquial, hyperbolic) For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
- 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, Chapter 1
- She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.
- We had to wait forever to get inside.
- 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, Chapter 1
- (frequency) Constantly or frequently.
- You are forever nagging me.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth, the spelling for ever may be used instead of forever for the senses "for all time" and "for a long time". In Canada and the United States, generally only forever is used, regardless of sense.
Synonyms
- always
- continually
- eternally
- evermore
- for good
- forevermore
- for ever more
- forever and a day
- incessantly
- until Kingdom come
- permanently
Derived terms
- foreverness
- foreverhood
- forever home
Related terms
- everlasting
- every
- everyday
- never
- nevermore
- whatever
- whenever
- whoever
Translations
Noun
forever (plural forevers)
- An extremely long time.
- 2007, Ruth O'Callaghan, "Where acid has etched"
- In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers, the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull.
- 2007, Ruth O'Callaghan, "Where acid has etched"
- (colloquial) A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
Translations
Adjective
forever (not comparable)
- Permanent, lasting
forever From the web:
- what forever stamps are available
- what forever means
- what forever stamps are available now
- what forever stamp worth
- what forever 21 stores are open
perpetually
English
Etymology
perpetual +? -ly
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??p?t?u?li/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??p?t???li/, /p??p?tj??li/
- Hyphenation: per?pet?u?al?ly
Adverb
perpetually (comparative more perpetually, superlative most perpetually)
- Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.
Synonyms
- ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously
Translations
perpetually From the web:
- what perpetual means
- what perpetual inventory system
- what perpetual license mean
- what does perpetually mean
- what does perpetually mean in science
- what does perpetually mean in the water cycle
- what does perpetually mean in the bible
- what does perpetually waived mean
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