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Forever And A Day

Definition: Forever And A Day

Forever And A Day

Adverb

1. (informal) for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Forever And A Day

Synonym: forever (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Forever And A Day

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Forever And A Day

DomainUsage

Lyrics

U can be sure, Even if it take forever and a day for me 2 do (Send It On; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Movie/TV Titles

Forever and a Day (1943)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Forever And A Day

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

forever and a day

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Forever And A Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-d-e-e-f-n-o-r-r-v-y"

-5 letters: overdared, readorned, verandaed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Forever And A Day


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6F 72 65 76 65 72      41 6E 64      41      44 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006F 0072 0065 0076 0065 0072      0041 006E 0064      0041      0044 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4081847188718423580702352386791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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