eternity

  • 21eternity — e|ter|ni|ty [ ı tɜrnəti ] noun 1. ) uncount the whole of time, with no beginning and no end: I will love you for all eternity. a ) the idea that a person s SOUL lives for ever after they die 2. ) count an extremely long time: After an eternity,… …

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  • 22eternity — noun 1) the memory will remain for eternity Syn: ever, all time, perpetuity 2) informal I waited an eternity for you Syn: a long time, an age, ages, a lifetime, hours, years, forever …

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  • 23eternity — UK [ɪˈtɜː(r)nətɪ] / US [ɪˈtɜrnətɪ] noun 1) a) [uncountable] the whole of time, with no beginning and no end I will love you for all eternity. b) the idea that a person s soul lives for ever after they die 2) [singular] an extremely long time… …

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  • 24eternity — noun /ɪˈtɜː.nə.ti,ɪˈtɝnɪti/ a) Existence without end, infinite time. Its been an eternity since we last saw each other. b) existence outside of time (compare sempiternity) Syn: all, time …

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  • 25eternity — noun Eternity is used before these nouns: ↑ring …

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  • 26eternity — Synonyms and related words: Beulah, Beulah Land, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Paradise, a better place, aeon, afterlife, age, ages, all comprehensiveness, all inclusiveness, an eternity, better world, blue moon, boundlessness, ceaselessness, century,… …

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  • 27eternity — (qidam)    See creation vs. eternity of the world …

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  • 28eternity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Time without end] Syn. endlessness, forever, endless duration, infinite duration, timelessness, everlastingness, perpetuity, world without end, saecula saeculorum (Latin), the future, infinity, all eternity, forever and a… …

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  • 29ETERNITY —    the opposite of time, what is timeless. In CHRISTIAN teaching eternity is associated with the AFTERLIFE and realm of GOD …

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  • 30eternity —    (in)    dead    Without necessarily any aspiration to reincarnation, celestial hymn singing, or other sought after benefits:     Silence, all of you! Another sound and we ll put you all in eternity! (Fraser, 1994) …

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