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English Dictionary: forever by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forever
adv
  1. for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
    Synonym(s): everlastingly, eternally, forever, evermore
  2. for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"
    Synonym(s): forever, forever and a day
  3. without interruption; "the world is constantly changing"
    Synonym(s): constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Forever \For*ev"er\, adv. [For, prep. + ever.]
      1. Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
  
      2. At all times; always.
  
      Note: In England, for and ever are usually written and
               printed as two separate words; but, in the United
               States, the general practice is to make but a single
               word of them.
  
      {Forever and ever}, an emphatic [bd]forever.[b8]
  
      Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably;
               incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly;
               ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly;
               eternally.
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