forever

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   For all future time; permanently.

   I will love you forever.

2. 2
   adv

   For a very long time that seems to have no end.

   It took forever to find a parking space.

3. 3
   adv

   Again and again; constantly.

   He is forever complaining about his job.

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.

Topics