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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, 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" [syn: forever, forever and a day]
3: without interruption; "the world is constantly changing" [syn: constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: circa 1500 1. for a limitless time <wants to live forever> 2. at all times ; continually <is forever making bad puns> II. noun Date: 1858 a seemingly interminable time ; excessively long <it took her forever to find the answer>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. continually, persistently (is forever complaining) (cf. for ever).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also for ever 1. If you say that something will happen or continue forever, you mean that it will always happen or continue. I think that we will live together forever... I will forever be grateful for his considerable input. ADV: ADV with v 2. If something has gone or changed forever, it has gone or changed completely and permanently. The old social order was gone forever... Their lives changed forever. ADV: ADV after v 3. If you say that something takes forever or lasts forever, you are emphasizing that it takes or lasts a very long time, or that it seems to. (INFORMAL) The drive seemed to take forever... ADV: ADV after v [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Always, prepetually, eternally, everlastingly, endlessly, ever, evermore, aye, for aye, at all times, to the end of time, world or time without end, through endless ages, to eternity.

Moby Thesaurus

ad infinitum, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, always, an eternity, aye, boundlessly, boundlessness, countlessness, endless time, endlessly, endlessness, eternally, eternity, ever, ever and again, ever and anon, evermore, exhaustlessness, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever and aye, forevermore, illimitability, illimitably, immeasurability, immeasurably, immensely, immensity, in all ages, in perpetuity, incalculability, incalculably, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibly, inexhaustibility, infinitely, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, innumerability, innumerably, interminability, interminably, limitlessly, limitlessness, measurelessly, measurelessness, now and forever, numberlessness, perpetuity, termlessness, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops, time without end, to infinity, universality, unmeasurability, without end, without limit, world without end