Definition of for_ever
1. forever [ r ] for a limitless time
Examples:
"no one can live forever"
"brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
(Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)
It will forever be a baseball mystery how a team will suddenly start hitting after a distressing slump .
(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)
One reel - from eight to twelve minutes - became the standard length from the year of Robbery , 1903 , until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth_of_a_Nation in 1915 .
(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)
However , the building of freeways and garages cannot continue forever .
As it affects the city 's fiscal situation , such an interchange is ruinous ; it removes forever from the tax rolls property which should be taxed to pay for the city services .
(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)
It was going_to stay forever .
Synonyms forever everlastingly eternally evermore Related Terms ageless ageless ageless2. forever [ r ] seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly
Examples:
"always looking for faults"
"it is always raining"
"he is forever cracking jokes"
"they are forever arguing"
(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)
Adam watched his own hands make the caressing , anxious movement that , when rain falls and nobody comes , and ruin draws_close like a cat rubbing against the ankles , has been the ritual of stall vendors , forever .
Synonyms forever always3. forever [ r ] (informal) for a very long or seemingly endless time
Examples:
"she took forever to write the paper"
"we had to wait forever and a day"
(Chicago Daily Tribune...)
Certainly not in Orchestra_hall where he has played countless recitals , and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago_Symphony_orchestra , playing the Brahms_Concerto with his own slashing , demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high , pale , pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music , or forever finds it closed .
Synonyms forever forever_and_a_day Related Terms colloquialism4. forever [ n ] time without end
Synonyms eternity forever infinity Related Terms time alpha_and_omegaSimilar Spelling
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