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Adjektiivi

1. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
2. Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
3. (philosophy) Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
4. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
5. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
6. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
7. (botany) Chiefly in the name of a plant:
8. Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
9. Of a plant or plant part: Synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
10. (US, regional, archaic) Used as an intensifier.

Substantiivi

1. (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: Short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
2. (countable, archaic) Preceded by the: someone or something that lasts forever, or that that has always existed and will continue to exist forever; an eternal, an immortal; specifically (Christianity), God.
3. Synonym of lasting (“(en, uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (en, countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
4. (obsolete) Short for everlasting trimming (“(en, uncountable) an embroidered edging used on underclothes; (en, countable) a quantity of such edging”)

Adverbi

1. (chiefly US, regional, informal, archaic) Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
2. (obsolete) In an everlasting (adjective ) manner; forever.