forever

Forms

1.For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, for ever.
- I shall love you forever.
2.For a very long time, a seeming eternity.(colloquial)
- We had to wait forever to get inside.
- Anything in the world of transport takes forever to do, and costs far too much.
- She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.
3.Constantly or frequently.
- I'm a B student 'cas I'm forever getting B-, B, and B+.
- You are forever nagging me.
- Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.

1.An extremely long time.(colloquial)
- I haven't seen him in forever!
- Don't spend forever on the phone!
- It took me forever to make up my mind.
2.A mythical time in the future that will never come.(colloquial)
- Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
3.Alternative form of forever.

1.Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.(informal)
- We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.
- He is a forever friend.

Common· #1767

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.