FOR EVER

Definition: FOR EVER

FOR EVER

1. Eternally. See Forever .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Diuturnity

Adverb: long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago; (in a past time); longo intervallo.

Infinity

Verb: be infinite; Adjective: know no limits, have no limits, know no bounds,have no bounds; go on for ever.

Perpetuity

Adverb: perpetually; Adjective: always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time"; till doomsday; constantly; (very frequently).

Property

To one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assigns.

Repute

Phrase: one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat.

Crosswords: FOR EVER

Out by fifteen or dead in the scene but together for ever (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett)

For ever more (The Story In Your Eyes; performing artist: The Moody Blues)

For Ever and for Ever (1909)

Charlotte for Ever (1986)

Fernandel for ever (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Winner-Take-All Society: How More and More Americans Compete for Ever Fewer and Bigger Prizes, Encouraging Economic Waste, Income Inequality, an (reference)

• It Looked Like for Ever (reference)

• A Mind for Ever Voyaging: Wordsworth at Work Portraying Newton and Science (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Wellness Rhythms Music for Ever (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Supposing the conqueror gives to one man a thousand acres, to him and his heirs for ever; to another he lets a thousand acres for his life, under the rent of 501. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

My son, it minds me of a day Left half a life behind, That I have prayed to put away For ever from my mind.

Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

However, leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever, he drove his task onward, with earnest haste and ecstasy.

What a mournful moment is that in which society withdraws itself and gives up a thinking being for ever.

For ever! For all eternity!

And if thy poor devoted servant may But beg one favour at thy gracious hand, Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Denmark

The Amsterdam Treaty was approved in the referendum of May 28, 1998, but the persistent skepticism of the EU in Denmark may no longer be a purely Danish phenomenon, as other member nations seem to have lowered their ambitions for ever greater political integration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "FOR EVER": be for ever asking for ♦ For ever and a day ♦ for ever and ever ♦ go on for ever ♦ to one and his heirs for ever. Additional references.

Afrikaans

ewig (eternal, forever). (various references)

Albanian

përgjithmonë (eternally, evermore, forever). (various references)

Arabic 

‏على طول (along, bee line, over, right, straight), ‏دائما (always, constantly, ever, evermore, for aye, forever, permanently). (various references)

Bulgarian 

завинаги (evermore, for good, forever, outright, permanently). (various references)

Czech

navždy (for good, forever). (various references)

Dutch

voor eeuwig (forever), eeuwig (eternal, everlasting, forever, perpetual). (various references)

Esperanto

eterne (forever). (various references)

Faeroese

ævinliga (forever), æviga (forever). (various references)

Finnish

ikuisesti (eternally), iankaikkisesti (eternally), iankaiken, iäti (eternally), iäksi (for life, forver), ainiaaksi (for all time). (various references)

French

pour toujours (for aye, forever). (various references)

German

fortwährend (all the time, always, ceaselessly, constant, continual, ever, forever, incessant, incessantly, perpetual). (various references)

Greek 

για πάντα (for good, for life). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעולם (always, forever). (various references)

Hungarian

örökre (for good, for keeps, forever, perpetually). (various references)

Indonesian

dunia-akhirat (for ever and ever). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

亘古 (from ancient times). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"う�" (anxiety, excellent, finance corporation, fine, from ancient times, historic, looking back, love of antiquities, pertinent, the public, the world, unprecedented, worry). (various references)

Pig Latin

orfay everay

Romanian

pentru totdeauna (for ever and a day, for ever and ever, for good, for good and all, for keeps, forever, forevermore, outright). (various references)

Russian 

навсегда (evermore, for keeps, for perpetuity, forever, in perpetuity, once and for all, once for all, permanently, to perpetuity). (various references)

Scottish

feasd , am feasd, feasd (used along with), chaoidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stalno tražiti (be for ever asking for), potraživati (be for ever asking for, claim, lay up claim). (various references)

Spanish

para siempre (farewell, for aye, for goods and all, forever, in perpetuity). (various references)

Swedish

för alltid (for keeps, forever). (various references)

Turkish

sonsuza dek (eternally, everlasting, forever, forever and ever, forever more, forevermore, to all eternity), her zaman (all along, all the time, always, any old time, any time, at all times, ever, evermore, every time, invariably, routinely), ebediyen (ad infinitum, eternally, everlasting, evermore, for evermore, for perpetuity, forever, in perpetuity, to perpetuity). (various references)

Ukrainian

назавжди (for ay, for aye, for good, forever, in perpetuity). (various references)

Welsh

byth (aye, eternity, ever, sometime). (various references)

aeterno, aeternum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: forever.

-1 letter: fervor.

-2 letters: fever, freer, frere, frore, refer, rover.

-3 letters: ever, fere, fore, free, froe, over, reef, rove, veer.

-4 letters: ere, err, eve, fee, fer, foe, for, fro, ore, ree, ref, rev, roe, vee, voe.

-5 letters: ef, er, oe, of, or, re.

+1 letter: forevers, overfear, overfree, overrife.

+2 letters: feverwort, overbrief, overfears.

+3 letters: feverworts, overfeared, overruffed.

+4 letters: forevermore, foreverness, overcareful, overfavored, overfearing, overrefined, reformative.

+5 letters: overinformed, performative.