Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Independent of time; eternal.
- adjective Seemingly unaffected by time; ageless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unseasonable; inopportune; untimely.
- Unmarked by time; eternal: unending; interminable.
- Referring to no particular time; undated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
- adjective obsolete Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature.
- adjective Having no end; interminable; unending.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
eternal - adjective not affected by
time ;ageless - adjective obsolete Done at an improper time;
unseasonable ;untimely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unaffected by time
Etymologies
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Examples
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Equally comprehensive as they are catchy, their songs try to educate students on what they call the "timeless" moments in U.S. history while connecting each subject to current events.
Matt Weber: History Hip Hop Visits Harvard Matt Weber 2012
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Equally comprehensive as they are catchy, their songs try to educate students on what they call the "timeless" moments in U.S. history while connecting each subject to current events.
Matt Weber: History Hip Hop Visits Harvard Matt Weber 2012
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What makes the book timeless is that it is not a cook book with a prescription for what to do, but a set of distinctions and principles that can help an activist invent the next step in his or her pursuit of change.
Saul Alinsky: An Advocate Of Living In Liberty Charles W. Kadlec 2010
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Her words remain timeless and become lyrical armor that those on the margins have adopted as theirs.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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What makes the book timeless is that it is not a cook book with a prescription for what to do, but a set of distinctions and principles that can help an activist invent the next step in his or her pursuit of change.
Saul Alinsky: An Advocate Of Living In Liberty Charles W. Kadlec 2010
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Many also feel strangely like fairytales as they explore weird situations in timeless settings.
Powerfully Morbid & Occasionally Gruesome « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Her words remain timeless and become lyrical armor that those on the margins have adopted as theirs.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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Many also feel strangely like fairytales as they explore weird situations in timeless settings.
August « 2009 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Her words remain timeless and become lyrical armor that those on the margins have adopted as theirs.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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And for older kids, you can always recommend your relatives buy something out of the Bethlehem Books catalog, which specializes in timeless and beautiful literature for children (and yes, subtle plug, I am one of their authors!)
Archive 2007-03-01 regina doman 2007
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