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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forever \For*ev"er\ (f[o^]r*[e^]v"[~e]r), adv. [For, prep. +
     ever.]
     1. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
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     2. At all times; always.


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     Note: 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.
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     {Forever and ever}, an emphatic "forever."
  
     Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably;
          incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly;
          ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly;
          eternally.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  forever
       adv 1: for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly
              beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse
              evermore"- P.P.Bliss [syn: {everlastingly}, {eternally},
               {evermore}]
       2: seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly;
          "always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he
          is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing"
          [syn: {always}]
       3: for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever
          to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"
          [syn: {forever and a day}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "forever":
     ad infinitum, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, always,
     an eternity, aye, boundlessly, boundlessness, countlessness,
     endless time, endlessly, endlessness, eternally, eternity, ever,
     ever and again, ever and anon, evermore, exhaustlessness,
     for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever and aye,
     forevermore, illimitability, illimitably, immeasurability,
     immeasurably, immensely, immensity, in all ages, in perpetuity,
     incalculability, incalculably, incomprehensibility,
     incomprehensibly, inexhaustibility, infinitely, infiniteness,
     infinitude, infinity, innumerability, innumerably, interminability,
     interminably, limitlessly, limitlessness, measurelessly,
     measurelessness, now and forever, numberlessness, perpetuity,
     termlessness, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops,
     time without end, to infinity, universality, unmeasurability,
     without end, without limit, world without end
  
  

















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