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perennial
What does perennial mean?
perennial (adjective): lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use perennial in a sentence?
- Perennial happiness. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce perennial?
/pəˈɹɛniəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does perennial come from?
The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “perennial” mean?
of a statement, conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct
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conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid
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existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact
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lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time
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