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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Forever \For*ev"er\ (f[o^]r*[e^]v"[~e]r), adverb [For, preposition + ever.]
1. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
2. At all times; always.
Note: In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them.
{Forever and ever}, an emphatic ''forever.''
Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
forever
adverb
1: for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss [syn: {everlastingly}, {eternally}, {evermore}]
2: seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly; "always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing" [syn: {always}]
3: for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day" [syn: {forever and a day}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "forever": ad infinitum, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, always, an eternity, aye, boundlessly, boundlessness, countlessness, endless time, endlessly, endlessness, eternally, eternity, ever, ever and again, ever and anon, evermore, exhaustlessness, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever and aye, forevermore, illimitability, illimitably, immeasurability, immeasurably, immensely, immensity, in all ages, in perpetuity, incalculability, incalculably, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibly, inexhaustibility, infinitely, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, innumerability, innumerably, interminability, interminably, limitlessly, limitlessness, measurelessly, measurelessness, now and forever, numberlessness, perpetuity, termlessness, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops, time without end, to infinity, universality, unmeasurability, without end, without limit, world without end
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