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Forever can be an adverb or a noun.
forever used as an adverb:
- for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time.
"I shall love you forever." - for a very long time, 'an' eternity.
"We had to wait forever to get inside." - for an excessively long time.
"It took her forever to get dressed and ready for the party." - at all times, anytime, always
"You'll have a home here forever, my son!" - constantly or frequently.
"You are forever nagging me."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
forever used as a noun:
- An extremely long time.
"It takes forever to get business a permit and a landline." - a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
"Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is forever?
- Adverb usage: I shall love you forever.
- Adverb usage: We had to wait forever to get inside.
- Adverb usage: It took her forever to get dressed and ready for the party.
- Adverb usage: The drive to his mothers' house took forever.
- Adverb usage: You'll have a home here forever, my son!
- Adverb usage: You are forever nagging me.
- Noun usage: It takes forever to get business a permit and a landline.
- Noun usage: Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of forever are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of forever, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).