Forever

Definitions: Forever

Forever

Adverb

1. For a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss.

2. Seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly; "always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing".

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

Noun

1. Time without end.

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

Date "forever" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Forever \For*ev"er\, adverb. [For, preposition. ever.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Forever

Action

Phrase: "action is eloquence"; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n"; dii pia facta vident; faire sans dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts"; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action "; "thought is the soul of act"; vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir; "we live in deeds not years".

Perpetuity

Verb: last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end.

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).

Crosswords: Forever

Drink from me and you will live forever. (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

The hideousness of that foot will haunt my dreams forever. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Owen, he can't stay here forever, most of his friends have gone. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

It'll scar you forever. Ready? (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever (Never Keeping Secrets; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

Say you'll love and love me forever (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis)

I'm gonna love you forever (I wanna love you forever; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

Let's make it last forever and ever (Make It Last Forever; performing artist: Keith Sweat)

Until forever (Forever; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever. (references; author: unknown)

A fair face may fade, but a beautiful soul last forever. (references; author: unknown)

Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever. (references; author: unknown)

God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever. (references; author: unknown)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Today and Forever! Barbra: Yesterday (1970)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (1970)

Up Your Legs Forever (1970)

I Wanna Love You Forever (performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

Forever (performing artist: Kiss)

Close My Eyes Forever (performing artist: Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne)

Forever (performing artist: Mariah Carey)

This Night Won't Last Forever (performing artist: Michael Johnson)

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

References

• Forever Enterprises, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Shanghai Forever Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Key to Forever (Draycott Abbey Series) (reference)

• The 7 Minute Miracle: Breakthrough Program To Banish Spot Fat Forever (reference)

• Forever and Always (reference)

• A Sunday night planning guide guaranteed to banish the blahs-- forever (reference)

• Mary Hunt's the Complete Cheapskate: How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out, and Break Free from Money Worries Forever (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Forever Young (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ranma 1/2 Ranma Forever - Rock a Bye Ranma (Vol. 4) (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 14, Episodes 27 & 28: Errand of Mercy/ The City on the Edge of Forever (reference)

• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Forever Gold: Jose Felicianco (reference)

• Forever Gold: Marvin Gaye (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• No One Lives Forever (Mac) (reference)

• Lisa Frank Forever Fun Works Deluxe (reference)

• Lisa Frank's Forever Fun Works Standard Size (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Forever Flashlight (reference)

• Lenox Wedding Promises Forever Yours Fine China Bride & Groom (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

An employee of NRCS helps students plant a tree that is part of a demonstration riparian buffer in Greene County in west central Iowa. NRCS and other groups helped Trees Forever establish more than 100 such demo sites across Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Left to right: Jim Wooley, Pheasants Forever; Larry Jones, NRCS soil conservationist; and the farm owner discuss wildlife benefits of a grass filter strip on the Maggard farm in Jasper County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Safer Sex forever. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The stars and stripes forever. Credit: Library of Congress.

Why, when you're always and forever my poetic model --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Iowa's choice (?) : Boise and beer forever. Credit: Library of Congress.

What every husband knows. Yesterday -- today -- and forever!. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Move over - we can't stay in a holding pattern forever" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Paris Exposition 1900 Sousa Band "Stars & Stripes forever". Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale's forever Devil's auction. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We have also granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever. (reference)

Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." (Abraham Lincoln)

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Hardly is the door touched when a gentle voice is heard from the other side hastily saying, Forever.

Those trains and their grieving sounds were lost forever between stations, not remembering where they had been, not guessing where they might go, exhaling their last pale breaths over the horizon, gone.

Like to lay here forever.

I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Once endothelium cells are destroyed by disease or trauma, they are lost forever. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

U.S. firms such as Tupperware, Avon, SaraLee, High Desert, Forever Living, Encyclopedia Britannica, Herbalife, Amway and Sunrider, have established distributorship networks in the country. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

One example was an article in the National Journal on April 10 entitled "Sects in Moldova Recruit Followers by Promising Them Everything, After Which they Separate Them from God Forever." Several representatives of religious groups complained that this article was biased, especially in the way that it focused on the less mainstream groups. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "forever": forever and a day ♦ Forever and ever ♦ forever more ♦ forever yours ♦ go on forever ♦ wait forever. Additional references.

Beginning with "forever": forever-changing, forever-ish, forever-never.

Ending with "forever": diamond-is-forever, live-forever, upstream-forever.

Afrikaan

ewig (eternal, for ever). (various references)

Albanian

tërë kohës, përjetësi (aeon, Eon, eternity, everlasting, immortality, perpetuity), përgjithmonë (eternally, evermore, for ever). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إلى الأبد (aye, evermore, for aye), ‏دائما (always, constantly, ever, evermore, for aye, for ever, permanently), ‏بإستمرار (constantly, hourly, on and on, permanently). (various references)

Bulgarian 

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

Chinese 

長 (always, chief, constantly, elder, head, length, long, to develop, to grow), 永远, 永� (eternal), 永 (always, perpetual). (various references)

Czech

vìènì (eternally), navždy (for ever, for good), navìky (evermore, for ages, till the end of times), nastálo (for good). (various references)

Dutch

voor eeuwig (for ever), eeuwig (eternal, everlasting, for ever, perpetual). (various references)

Esperanto

eterne (for ever). (various references)

Faeroese

ævinliga (for ever), æviga (for ever). (various references)

Farsi 

پیوسته (Against, Allied, Always, Away, Ceaseless, Concomitant, Contiguous, Continual, Cursive, Eternal, Incessant, Married, Proximate, Uninterrupted), تاابدالاباد, تاابد, جاویدان (Immortal), برای همیشه . (various references)

French

toujours (for aye), sans cesse, pour toujours (for aye, for ever). (various references)

German

immer (always, constantly, eternally, ever, throughout, unfailingly, whensoever), für immer (ad infinitum, for ever). (various references)

Greek 

πάντα (always, ever, everything, invariably), αιώνιοσ (agelong, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying), διά πάντοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעולם (always, for ever), לע�" (eternally), לצמיתות (for keeps, permanently), ל� צח (always, conquer, defeat, eternally, everlastingly, evermore, for ever, lick, overcome, overpower, perpetually, triumph, vanquish, win), וע�" (board, committee), � צח (aeon, endurance, eternity, immortality, perpetuity). (various references)

Hungarian

örökre (for ever, for good, for keeps, perpetually), örökké (ad infinitum, always, eternally, ever, ever after, evermore, for ever, in perpetuity, jay, to be always meddling). (various references)

Indonesian

selamanya. (various references)

Italian

per sempre. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

千代 (thousand years, very long period), 千世 (thousand years, very long period), 末長く (long), 末永く , 末始終 (for life), 末代 (in perpetuity), 永永 , 永々 , 幾久しく , 何時までも (as long as one likes, eternally, for good, indefinitely), 尽未来 (eternally). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すえながく (long), すえしじゅう (for life), まつ� い (in perpetuity), せ�"� い (berth, family predecessor, previous age, previous generation, thousand years, very long period), いくひさしく, いつまでも (as long as one likes, eternally, for good, indefinitely), じ�"みらい (eternally), ちよ (thousand years, very long period), えいえい (hard, heaving, pulling, unceasing). (various references)

Korean 

영원히. (various references)

Manx

er son dy bragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

oreverfay

Portuguese

para sempre. (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

zauvek (evermore, good: for good), unepovrat. (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

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

Turkish

sonsuza dek (eternally, everlasting, for ever, forever and ever, forever more, forevermore, to all eternity), ebediyen (ad infinitum, eternally, everlasting, evermore, for ever, for evermore, for perpetuity, in perpetuity, to perpetuity), durmadan (away, continual, continually, continuously, night and day, non-stop, on, on and on, on end, repeatedly, without cease), devamlı (assiduous, away, chronic, continual, continued, continuous, everlasting, evermore, frequent, hourly, in ordinary, incessant, invariable, invariably, lasting, non-stop, on end, permanent, persistent, regular, regularly, settled, steady, sustained, unabating, unbroken, unceasing, unremitting), daima (always, ever, evermore, every time, forever and ever, forever more, forevermore). (various references)

Turkmen 

mydamalaяyn (for good), dьяpleяin (once and for all), dьяpgцter (once and for all). (various references)

Ukranian 

вічність (aeon, eternity, everlasting, immortality, perpetuity), назавжди (for ay, for aye, for ever, for good, in perpetuity), безперестану. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vĩnh viễn (ageless, agelong, endless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, indefeasible, perdurable, perennial, perpetual), mãi mãi (ad infinitum, agelong, always, everlasting, evermore, keep, kept, sempiternal). (various references)

perpetuo, semper. (various references)

ýavaêtâtaêca. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "forever": forevermore, foreverness, forevernesses, forevers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Forever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farver, florivory, foerer, foever, foreover, forier, formvar, forrader, forve, Foryewe, fraver, Frevel, morever, Ooever. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

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