lasting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlæstɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/

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• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): /ˈleəstɪŋ/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈlastɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ, -æstɪŋ
• Hyphenation: last‧ing

Adjective

lasting (comparative more lasting, superlative most lasting)

1. Persisting for an extended period of time.

   Synonyms: abiding, durable; see also Thesaurus:lasting

   After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.

   I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 249:

     hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
     Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

   • 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture‎^[1], London: John Chantry, act V, page 63:

     Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]

   • 1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, (please specify the stanza number):

     I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
     Change grows too changeable, without being new:

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 34, in The Good Earth‎^[2], New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 311:

     Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.

   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3]:

     Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

2. (obsolete) Persisting forever.

   Synonyms: eternal, everlasting; see also Thesaurus:eternal

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:

     I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
     Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
     And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
     His soul and body to their lasting rest.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 24:

     Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.

Derived terms

• lastingly
• lastingness
• long-lasting

Translations

persisting for an extended period of time

• Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), издръжлив (bg) (izdrǎžliv)
• Esperanto: daŭra
• Finnish: pysyvä (fi), kestävä (fi)
• French: permanent (fr) m, permanente (fr) f
• Italian: permanente (it), duraturo (it), durevole (it)
• Latin: aeternus (la), dūrābilis
• Maori: ukauka, ukuiuki, whakauka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: varig

• Plautdietsch: bestendich
• Portuguese: duradouro (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: maireannach, buan, seasmhach
• Spanish: duradero (es)
• Tocharian B: eṃṣketstse
• Turkish: kalıcı (tr), sürekli (tr), süregelen (tr)

Verb

lasting

1. present participle and gerund of last

Noun

lasting (countable and uncountable, plural lastings)

1. (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

   Synonyms: continuance, duration, endurance

   • 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,^[4]

     But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.

   • 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour‎^[5], London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle:

     […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 10, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 4, page 65:

     But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]

2. A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.

   Synonym: everlasting

3. The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.

Anagrams

• Gatlins, salting, slating, staling

French

Noun

lasting m (plural lastings)

1. lasting (material)

Further reading

• “lasting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From laste +‎ -ing.

Noun

lasting f or m (definite singular lastinga or lastingen, indefinite plural lastinger, definite plural lastingene)

1. loading (av / of)

Antonyms

• lossing

References

• “laste_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From laste +‎ -ing.

Noun

lasting f (definite singular lastinga, indefinite plural lastingar, definite plural lastingane)

1. loading (av / of)

Antonyms

• lossing

References

• “lasting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.