MEANING
To continue or endure for a long time, especially when something persists beyond its original context.
Use it for
Something continues to endure long after its beginning.Give a custom, influence, or memory a long life beyond its first setting.
Words that belong together
- perdure for centuries
- perdure beyond a lifetime
- influence perdured
On the page
The old rule perdured long after its original purpose had vanished.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- perdure
- Past tense
- perdured
- Past participle
- perdured
- Present participle
- perduring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- perdure
- Present continuous
- am/is/are perduring
- Present perfect
- have/has perdured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been perduring
- Past
- perdured
- Past continuous
- was/were perduring
- Past perfect
- had perdured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been perduring
- Future
- will perdure
- Future continuous
- will be perduring
- Future perfect
- will have perdured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been perduring
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Usage notes
A rare, formal verb meaning to continue; use it for persistence over time, not for an event that merely follows another. Third-person singular: perdures.
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