| adjective | 1. Enduring continuously; imperishable. |
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| | | "One selling point of cast-iron cookware is how seemingly perdurable it is." |
| | | "My grandfather always claimed his love for my grandmother was perdurable." |
| | | "Mozart's influence on music has proved to be perdurable." |
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| Latin, late 13th century |
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| "Perdurable" comes to us from late Middle English via Old French, with the root in the Latin "perdurare," meaning "endure." You'd be hard-pressed to find anything more perdurable than the isotope xenon-124: It has the longest half-life of any material that's been directly measured in a lab, 18 sextillion years. ... | Continue Reading |
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