forever

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adverb for a limitless time; ; - P.P.Bliss
  2. adverb for a very long or seemingly endless time
  3. adverb without interruption

Etymology

Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.

In classic literature

Synonyms

everlastingly, eternally, evermore

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