Forever
[fə'revə] or [fɚ'ɛvɚ]
Definition
(adv.) for a very long or seemingly endless time; 'she took forever to write the paper'; 'we had to wait forever and a day'.
Inputed by Clara--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
(adv.) At all times; always.
Checker: Victoria
Definition
adv. for ever for all time to come: to eternity.—adv. Forev′ermore for ever hereafter.
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- They know how to drive a stake through a pleasant tradition that will hold it to its place forever. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Forever is a long time. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And I hope you will live forever. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was willing to be sealed thus in the underworld, like a soul damned but living forever in damnation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Moors and Spaniards are foes forever now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The songs she sang, without lament, In her prison-house of pain, Forever are they sweetly blent With the falling summer rain. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She had enveloped both Will and Rosamond in her burning scorn, and it seemed to her as if Rosamond were burned out of her sight forever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Once it was proved, she was free of him forever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the deception could not be kept up forever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The person who holds fast to that idea is forever incapable of understanding either men or constitutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A little sea-bathing would set me up forever. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Farewell, Josh--and if forever! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If he sees it I'm done for forever--you KNOW you're done for forever, if he sees the absurd state you're in. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He would leave that forever behind him with the great hopes he had nursed there of finding his own race and becoming a man among men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You have dishonoured me forever! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sir Joshua was labelled and placed forever in her mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hold up your head, boy, and be forever grateful unto them which so did do. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was the men without the Marxian vision of growth and discipline who were forever trying to lead little marauding bands against the governments of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To-morrow, I trust that we shall hear the last of it forever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My madness of love will last all my life—yes, forever! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- These dank walls had known the man whose dolorous story is a sealed book forever! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For Edison, in spite of the achievement with which its name will forever be connected, it had lost all its attractions and all its possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We were impressed that it could circle on forever, or sail like a bird over the country, so positive and assuring and complete was this demonstration. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Fun forever, and no grubbing! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- So everybody walks in the street--and where the street is wide enough, carriages are forever dashing along. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- However, we will soon show him we're alive, though the tunnel is closed up forever. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Forever is a _dre'ful_ word, chil'en; it's awful to think on 't. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But soon he found that that would not answer forever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Checker: Sophia