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Perdurable

Definition: Perdurable

Perdurable

Adjective

1. Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent".

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

Date "perdurable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Perdurable \Per*dur"a*ble\, noun. [Compare to the French expression perdurable, Old English pardurable. See Perdure.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Perdurable

Synonyms: durable (adj), indestructible (adj), undestroyable (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Perdurable

English words defined with "perdurable": durableindestructiblePerdureundestroyable. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Perdurable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (lasting, perdurable).

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Commercial Usage: Perdurable

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amor Perdurable (reference)

  • Entre lo efímero y lo perdurable (reference)

  • La batalla perdurable : a veces prosa (reference)

  • La vida perdurable (reference)

  • Medio ambiente y desarrollo alternativo : gestión racional de los recursos para una sociedad perdurable (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Perdurable

Language Translations for "perdurable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, firm, Hardy, indissoluble, lasting, lingering, permanent, persistent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unalterable, unswerving), i përjetshëm (eternal, everlasting, lifelong, perennial, perpetual, timeless, uncaused, undying, wakeless), i përhershëm (chronic, confirmed, constant, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, immutable, lasting, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, sempiternal, settled). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вечен (constant, continual, endless, eternal, everlasting, imperishable, incessant, indissoluble, interminable, never ending, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unfading, unperishing), много траен. (various references)

   

French

  

de durée permanente. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tartós (chronic, durable, enduring, hickory, indissoluble, keeping, lasting, permanent, solid, sound, stable, standing, staple, substantive, to dye sg in grain, to last, well knit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erdurablepay

   

Portuguese

  

permanente (abiding, consolidated, constant, continual, everlasting, indelicacy, lasting, perennial, perm, permanent, perpetual, persistent, pucka, pukka, standing, sustained), perdurável, emboscado, durável (durable, endurable, enduring, lasting, livelong, long-lived, reliable, serviceable, stable, standing). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

veÅŸnic (always, continual, continuous, endless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, inextinguishable, livelong, never-dying, perennial, perennially, perpetual, perpetually, sempiternal, unceasing), extrem de durabil. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очень прочный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veÄit (eternal, everlasting, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal, unbegun), trajan (abiding, continuous, durable, fast, imperfective, lasting, livelong, permanent). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perdurable (lasting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

varaktig (abiding, durable, enduring, lasting, permanent, secular), evig (age long, eternal, everlasting, for ever, never-ceasing, perpetual, undying, unending). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kalıcı (consistent, lasting, lingering, perennial, permanent, persistent, residual, stable), ebedi (amaranthine, endless, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, never ending, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, without end), daimi (constant, endless, imprescriptible, indissoluble, invariable, permanent, perpetual, standing). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вічний (ageless, dateless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, unending), поÑтійний (abiding, blue, certain, changeless, chronic, constant, continual, frequent, hourly, immanent, never failing, permanent, regular, sedentary, settled, standing, stationary, steady, uniform), дуже міцний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vÄ©nh viá»…n (ageless, agelong, endless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, forever, indefeasible, perennial, perpetual), vÄ©nh cá»­u; tá»"n tại mâi mâi; lâu đà i. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Perdurable"

Words rhyming with "perdurable" (pronounced 'Per*dur"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Perdurable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-p-r-r-u"

-2 letters: barreled, larruped, preluder, purebred, upbearer, upreared.

-3 letters: bedrape, bleared, blurred, dupable, durable, pearled, pearler, perdure, pleader, pleurae, prelude, puberal, replead, ruderal.

-4 letters: aulder, balder, barred, barrel, beadle, bearer, belaud, beleap, blared, burlap, burled, burler, burped, burred, dauber, dealer, dearer, draper, dueler, durbar, eluder, larder, larrup, lauder, leader, leaped, leaper, pardee, parled, parred, parrel.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-p-r-r-u"
 

+5 letters: perdurabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Perdurable


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

50 65 72 64 75 72 61 62 6C 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010000 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0072 0064 0075 0072 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

50718470878467687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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