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{
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{
"english": "always",
"sense": "antonym(s) of",
"word": "never"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "as ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "as ever trod shoe-leather"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "as ever trod shoe leather"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "e'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever after"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever and again"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever and anon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever and ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-burning"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-busy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "everchanging"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-changing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-damned"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "evergreen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-growing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "evergrowing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "everlasting"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "everloving"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-loving"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-more"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-moving"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-present"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "evershifting"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-shifting"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever since"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-smoker"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever smoker"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever so"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-varying"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ever-watchful"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "every"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "for ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "for ever and ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "forever and ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "for ever more"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "greatest story ever told"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "happily ever after"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "happily-ever-after"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "happy ever after"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "if ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "if ever there was one"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "if I ever saw one"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "may the odds be ever in your favor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "never ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "never ever have I"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "never have I ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "no good deed ever goes unpunished"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ready as I'll ever be"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "said no one ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "seldom or ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "that ever walked on two legs"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "what-so-ever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "yours ever"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "ever",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: ever",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: ever"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂ey-",
"4": "*perkʷ-",
"id1": "life"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ever",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ǣfre"
},
"expansion": "Old English ǣfre",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ā",
"t": "ever, always"
},
"expansion": "Old English ā (“ever, always”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ā tō fēore",
"t": "ever in life"
},
"expansion": "Old English ā tō fēore (“ever in life”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "feorhlīf",
"3": "",
"4": "life"
},
"expansion": "Old English feorhlīf (“life”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ever, from Old English ǣfre, originally a phrase whose first element undoubtedly consists of Old English ā (“ever, always”) + in (“in”) + an element possibly from feorh (“life, existence”) (dative fēore). Compare Old English ā tō fēore (“ever in life”), Old English feorhlīf (“life”).",
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{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "ever (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ev‧er"
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "forever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "however"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "whatever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "whatsoever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "whenever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "whichever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "whoever"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It was ever thus.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1592, George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, An Advertisement […] concerning Seminary Priests:",
"text": "[…] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1860, Florence Nightingale, Suggestions for Thought to the searchers after truth among the artizans of England., page 302:",
"text": "Let us ever remember that our conception, our comprehension, our feeling of God must be ever imperfect, yet should be ever advancing. We must not make God: we must find Him and feel Him more and more.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Nancy K. Florida, Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Introduction and manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 9:",
"text": "The library staffs of the Karaton Surakarta's Sasana Pustaka, the Mangku- nagaran's Reksa Pustaka, and the Museum Radyapustaka were ever helpful and generous with their time.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Roman Frydman, Michael D. Goldberg, Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "As with the rest of macroeconomics, the issues have to be rethought in a way that makes the ever-imperfect knowledge of market participants and policymakers an integral part of the analysis.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "Kane picked up the ball 25 yards out with 18 minutes left before proving he is ever the opportunist by flashing a dipping swerving drive beyond the deceived Szczesny.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Always, frequently, forever."
],
"id": "en-ever-en-adv-WnAEnshg",
"links": [
[
"Always",
"always"
],
[
"frequently",
"frequently"
],
[
"forever",
"forever"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal or archaic) Always, frequently, forever."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"sense": "always",
"word": "forever"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"formal",
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "mišt",
"sense": "always",
"word": "միշտ"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vínagi",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ви́наги"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "always",
"word": "總是"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǒngshì",
"sense": "always",
"word": "总是"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "altid"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "immer"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "idelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ooit"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "always",
"word": "altijd"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "always",
"word": "steeds"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ĉiam"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "kunagi"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "aina"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "always",
"word": "toujours"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "always",
"word": "immer"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "always",
"word": "stets"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ewig"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "aiw",
"sense": "always",
"word": "𐌰𐌹𐍅"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pánta",
"sense": "always",
"word": "πάντα"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pántote",
"sense": "always",
"word": "πάντοτε"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "mindig"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "folyton"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zutto",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ずっと"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "itsumo",
"sense": "always",
"word": "いつも"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ijekkaji",
"sense": "always",
"word": "이제까지"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neul",
"sense": "always",
"word": "늘"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hangsang",
"sense": "always",
"word": "항상"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eonjena",
"sense": "always",
"word": "언제나"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "always",
"word": "semper"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "støtt"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "stadig"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hamiše",
"sense": "always",
"word": "همیشه"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "zawsze"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "always",
"word": "sempre"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsegdá",
"sense": "always",
"word": "всегда́"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "uvijek"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "siempre"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "alltid"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "hep"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "her zaman"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "always",
"word": "ebediyen"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zavždý",
"sense": "always",
"word": "завжди́"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "always",
"word": "bao giờ"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "always",
"word": "bob amser"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "always",
"word": "yn wastad"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 39 8 0",
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "always",
"word": "jimmer"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "People struggled to cope with the ever-increasing cost of living.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration)."
],
"id": "en-ever-en-adv-i~QA8Ghq",
"links": [
[
"Continuously",
"continuously"
],
[
"constantly",
"constantly"
],
[
"all the time",
"all the time"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "ĉiam"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "egyre"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "folyton"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "egyre csak"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "örökké"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "coraz"
},
{
"_dis1": "16 73 12 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "continuously, constantly, all the time",
"word": "stale"
}
]
},
{
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{
"text": "We've only ever talked on the phone.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I scarcely ever see you anymore!.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "If that ever happens, we’re in deep trouble.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "This is one of the best movies ever.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He's back and better than ever.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07",
"text": "He said the study provides clear evidence that AI technologies are growing at a faster rate than ever and will continue to do so.\nAudio (US): (file)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"At any time."
],
"id": "en-ever-en-adv-GWw7lvXr",
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "yawman",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "يَوْمًا"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "erbewicʻe",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "երբևիցե"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "inoiz"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "noizbait"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kogato i da e",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "когато и да е"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "mai"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "曾經"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "céngjīng",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "曾经"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 9 87 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "at any time",
"word": "někdy"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/En-uk-ever.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "euer"
},
{
"word": "e'er"
},
{
"tags": [
"poetic"
],
"word": "ev'r"
},
{
"word": "eva"
},
{
"word": "evah"
},
{
"word": "eva'"
},
{
"word": "evuh"
},
{
"word": "iver"
},
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "ivver"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"ever"
],
"word": "ever"
}
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