permanently

permanently

English

Etymology

permanent +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝmənəntli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːmənəntli/
• (colloquial or dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məntli/
• Hyphenation: per‧ma‧nent‧ly

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Adverb

permanently (comparative more permanently, superlative most permanently)

1. In a permanent manner; lastingly.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 63:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2. Forever.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

     Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]

Antonyms

• temporarily

Derived terms

• permafrozen

Translations

in a permanent manner

Bulgarian: трайно (bg) (trajno), постоянно (bg) (postojanno) Catalan: permanentment (ca) Czech: permanentně (cs) Esperanto: senĉese, permanente (eo) Estonian: püsivalt, alaliselt Finnish: pysyvästi (fi) French: en permanence (fr), en tous temps, toujours (fr), continuellement (fr) Galician: permanentemente Georgian: მუდმივად (mudmivad), გამუდმებით (gamudmebit), მუდამ (mudam), სამუდამოდ (samudamod) Greek: μόνιμα (el) (mónima), μονίμως (el) (monímos) Hungarian: maradandóan (hu), tartósan (hu) Ido: permanante (io) Japanese: ずっと (ja) (zutto), 久しく (ja) (hisashiku), 永久に (ja) (eikyū ni), 永続的に (ja) (eizokuteki ni) Norwegian: permanent (no), for alltid Portuguese: permanentemente (pt) Spanish: permanentemente, constantemente, continuamente (es) Swedish: permanent (sv), för alltid, för evigt, stadigvarande (sv), beständig (sv), varaktig (sv), bestående (sv), oföränderlig (sv), oavbruten (sv) Turkish: temelli (tr)