forever

IPA: fɝˈɛvɝ

noun

  • An extremely long time.
  • (colloquial) A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.

adjective

  • Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.

adverb

  • (duration) For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
  • (duration, colloquial, hyperbolic) For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
  • (frequency) Constantly or frequently.
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Examples of "forever" in Sentences

  • Blessed are you, O God of our fathers; praised be your name forever and ever.
  • The former proposed to establish slavery forever; the latter abolished it _forever_.)
  • Our conviction of what we have believed in forever is her fodder, which she consumes ravenously.
  • Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, a name forever to be associated with catastrophe.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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