Lasting: Definition and part of speech

Lasting

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Last
  2. a. Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.
  3. n. Continuance; endurance.
  4. n. A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women’s shoes; everlasting.
  5. n. The act or process of shaping on a last.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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