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perdurable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective perdurable has 1 sense
- perdurable(s = adj.all) durable, indestructible, undestroyable - very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent" Derived form noun perdurability1
CIDE DICTIONARY
perdurable, n. [Cf. F. perdurable, OE. pardurable. See Perdure.].
Very durable; lasting; continuing long. Chaucer. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
perdurable, adj. formal permanent; eternal; durable.
Derivative
perdurability n. perdurably adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. LL perdurabilis (as PER-, DURABLE)
THESAURUS
perdurable
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