lasting

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lasting a long time without change

   a lasting relationship

2. 2
   adj

   Persisting for an extended period of time.

   After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.

3. 3
   adj

   Persisting forever.

   I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

4. 4
   noun

   The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

   1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.

5. 5
   adj

   existing for a long time

6. 6
   adj

   continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

7. 7
   adj

   retained

8. 8
   verb

   present participle and gerund of last