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Forever
Definitions
- 1 Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual. informal, not-comparable
"It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday"
- 1 For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time. not-comparable
"I shall love you forever."
- 2 For a very long time, a seeming eternity. colloquial, excessive, not-comparable
"We had to wait forever to get inside."
- 3 Constantly or frequently. not-comparable
"You are forever nagging me."
- 1 invariably wordnet
- 2 for a limitless time wordnet
- 3 for a very long or seemingly endless time wordnet
- 1 An extremely long time. colloquial, countable
"I haven't seen him in forever!"
- 2 Alternative form of forever. alt-of, alternative, poetic, uncountable
- 3 A mythical time in the future that will never come. colloquial, poetic, uncountable
"Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever."
Etymology
Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
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