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Definition of Forever

1. Adverb. For a limitless time. "Brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"

2. Adverb. For a very long or seemingly endless time. "We had to wait forever and a day"

3. Adverb. Without interruption. "The world is constantly changing"

Definition of Forever

1. adv. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.

Definition of Forever

1. Adverb. (context: duration) for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time. ¹

2. Adverb. (context: duration colloquial) for a very long time, 'an' eternity. ¹

3. Adverb. (context: duration colloquial) for an excessively long time. ¹

4. Adverb. at all times, anytime, always ¹

5. Adverb. (context: frequency) constantly or frequently. ¹

6. Noun. An extremely long time. ¹

7. Noun. (colloquial) a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forever

1. an indefinite length of time [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forever

foretokening foretokens foretold foretooth foretop foretopgallant foretopman foretopmast foretopmasts foretopmen

foretops foretopsail foretopsails foretriangle foretriangles forever (current term) forever and a day forever and ever forever stamp forevermore

foreverness forevernesses forevers forevouched forewalk foreward forewards forewarn forewarned forewarned, forearmed

Literary usage of Forever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... and assigne forever," and duly accepted aa the site for ita capítol, pass to the State when admitted, although the Territory may not have occupied them, ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"... between the United States and the Chippewa Nation of Indians, the lands comprehended within certain boundaries were forever ceded to the United States. ..."

3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1883)
"... I bade farewell — yes, I do not doubt, forever — to those scenes which, however changed or unchanged, must always possess an ineffable interest for me. ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"... and therefore by a devise to a man forever, or to one and his assigns forever, or to one in fee-simple, the devisee hath an estate of inheritance; ..."

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