forever Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb for a limitless time
    everlastingly; evermore; eternally.
    • no one can live forever
    • brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
  2. adverb for a very long or seemingly endless time
    forever and a day.
    • she took forever to write the paper
    • we had to wait forever and a day
  3. adverb without interruption
    incessantly; always; constantly; perpetually.
    • the world is constantly changing

WordNet

For*ev"er adverb
Etymology
For, prep. + ever.
Definitions
  1. Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
  2. At all times; always. ✍ 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. Syn. -- Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally.

Webster 1913