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  • Royaume-Uni//fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)//
  • États-Unis//fəˈɹɛvɚ//
  • États-Unis//fɚˈɛvɚ//
  • États-Unis//fɔɹˈɛvɚ//

For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.

adverbe

  1. 1

    For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.

    I shall love you forever.

    Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.

    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

  2. 2

    For a very long time, a seeming eternity.

    We had to wait forever to get inside.

    That was forever ago.

    She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.

    Anything in the world of transport takes forever to do, and costs far too much.

  3. 3

    Constantly or frequently.

    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.

    I'm a B student 'cas I'm forever getting B-, B, and B+.

Étymologie

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.

nom

  1. 1

    An extremely long time.

    I haven't seen him in forever!

    It took me forever to make up my mind.

    Don't spend forever on the phone!

    She should've been here five forevers ago!

  2. 2

    A mythical time in the future that will never come.

    Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.

adjectif

  1. 1

    familierPermanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.

    It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday

    We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.

    He is a forever friend.

    Danner posits that the United States has been trapped in a "forever war" by 9/11, and describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways by President Bush's having declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, […]

Formes

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Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).