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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
lasting (comparative more lasting, superlative most lasting)
- Persisting for an extended period of time.
- Synonyms: abiding, durable; see also Thesaurus:lasting
After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.
1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, act V, page 63:Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]
1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 34, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 311:Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.
- (obsolete) Persisting forever.
- Synonyms: eternal, everlasting; see also Thesaurus:eternal
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, , 1928, →OCLC, page 24:Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
Derived terms
Translations
persisting for an extended period of time
- Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), издръжлив (bg) (izdrǎžliv)
- Esperanto: daŭra
- Finnish: pysyvä (fi), kestävä (fi)
- French: permanent (fr) m, permanente (fr) f
- Italian: permanente (it), duraturo (it), durevole (it)
- Latin: aeternus (la), dūrābilis
- Maori: ukauka, ukuiuki, whakauka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: varig
- Plautdietsch: bestendich
- Portuguese: duradouro (pt) m
- Scottish Gaelic: maireannach, buan, seasmhach
- Spanish: duradero (es)
- Tocharian B: eṃṣketstse
- Turkish: kalıcı (tr), sürekli (tr), süregelen (tr)
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Verb
lasting
- present participle and gerund of last
Noun
lasting (countable and uncountable, plural lastings)
- (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- Synonyms: continuance, duration, endurance
- 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,
- But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle:[…] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 10, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC, book II, § 4, page 65:But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
- A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.
- Synonym: everlasting
- The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
Anagrams
French
Noun
lasting m (plural lastings)
- lasting (material)
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From laste + -ing.
Noun
lasting f or m (definite singular lastinga or lastingen, indefinite plural lastinger, definite plural lastingene)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
References
- “laste_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From laste + -ing.
Noun
lasting f (definite singular lastinga, indefinite plural lastingar, definite plural lastingane)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
References