Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb For everlasting time; eternally.
- adverb At all times; incessantly.
- noun A seemingly very long time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A common mode of writing for ever (which see, under
ever ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
- adverb At all times; always.
- adverb an emphatic “forever.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb duration for all
time , for alleternity ; for aninfinite amount of time. - adverb duration, colloquial for a very
long time, 'an' eternity. - adverb duration, colloquial for an excessively long time.
- adverb frequency
constantly orfrequently . - noun An extremely long time.
- noun colloquial a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb for a limitless time
- adverb without interruption
- adverb for a very long or seemingly endless time
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Examples
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The real origin appears to be this: it was a part of the religious belief of the Egyptians that, as a reward of a well-spent and virtuous life, their bodies after death should exist and remain undecayed forever in their tombs, for we find in the "Book of the Dead" the following inscription placed over the spirits who have found favor in the eyes of the Great God: "The bodies which they have forsaken shall _sleep forever_ in their sepulchres, while they rejoice in the presence of God most high."
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The former proposed to establish slavery forever; the latter abolished it _forever_.)
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884
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Our conviction of what we have believed in forever is her fodder, which she consumes ravenously.
Geri Spieler: The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction Geri Spieler 2010
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Our conviction of what we have believed in forever is her fodder, which she consumes ravenously.
Geri Spieler: The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction Geri Spieler 2010
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Not coincidentally, such a route, if found, likely would have been called the Frémont Trail, thus cementing his name forever to the fate of California.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Not coincidentally, such a route, if found, likely would have been called the Frémont Trail, thus cementing his name forever to the fate of California.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Blessed are you, O God of our fathers; praised be your name forever and ever.
The Exorsistah: X Returns Claudia Mair Burney 2010
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Not only would his name forever be mentioned alongside the greats of the sport—Merckx, Hinault, Indurain—but he was almost making it look easy.
LANCE ARMSTRONG BILL GUTMAN 2003
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Not only would his name forever be mentioned alongside the greats of the sport—Merckx, Hinault, Indurain—but he was almost making it look easy.
LANCE ARMSTRONG BILL GUTMAN 2003
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Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, a name forever to be associated with catastrophe.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM HAWTHORN 2011
bilby commented on the word forever
"I intend to live forever, or die trying."
- Groucho Marx.
December 24, 2007
anydelirium commented on the word forever
'Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with him, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back- leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.' -The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen
February 21, 2008