Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. For everlasting time; eternally: No one can live forever.
- adv. At all times; incessantly: was forever complaining about the job.
- n. A seemingly very long time: It has taken forever to resolve these problems.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A common mode of writing for ever (which see, under ever).
Wiktionary
- adv. duration for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time.
- adv. duration, colloquial for a very long time, 'an' eternity.
- adv. duration, colloquial for an excessively long time.
- adv. frequency constantly or frequently.
- n. An extremely long time.
- n. colloquial a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. eternally. See Forever.
- prep. eternally; at all times. See Forever.
- adv. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
- adv. At all times; always.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. for a limitless time
- adv. without interruption
- adv. for a very long or seemingly endless time
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Geri Spieler: The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
“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.”
“Blessed are you, O God of our fathers; praised be your name forever and ever.”
“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.”
“Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, a name forever to be associated with catastrophe.”
“I've had the title forever, last night I got the story itself.”
“I made a choice one day to stick up for the Indian girls in class who were being picked on and I guess I soiled my name forever.”
“Probably, when he wrote the word forever, he had thought it was the truth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forever’.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Poetrie: The Rose Growing into the House
by Gibbons Ruark
Lately I think of my love for you and the rose
Growing into the house, springing up from under the eaves
And spiraling upward to pierce the chink in the corn...lately, think, love, rose, growing, house, springing, under, eaves, spiraling, upward, pierce and 18 more...
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words that make me happy
christmas, kate, glitter, sparkle, ice, icicle, snow, polar, aurora borealis, northern lights, skylight, fairy lights and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for forever.
anydelirium '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 Feb 21, 2008
bilby "I intend to live forever, or die trying."
- Groucho Marx. Dec 23, 2007