Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Forever"
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 ``forever.''
Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably;
incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly;
ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly;
eternally.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
forever
n : time without end [syn: {eternity}, {infinity}]
adv 1: for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly
beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse
evermore"- P.P.Bliss [syn: {everlastingly}, {eternally},
{evermore}]
2: seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly;
"always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he
is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing"
[syn: {always}]
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" [syn: {forever and a day}]
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