enduring
[ en-doo r-ing, -dyoo r- ]
/ ɛnˈdʊər ɪŋ, -ˈdyʊər- /
adjective
lasting; permanent: a poet of enduring greatness.
patient; long-suffering.
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Definition for enduring (2 of 2)
endure
[ en-door, -dyoor ]
/ ɛnˈdʊər, -ˈdyʊər /
verb (used with object), en·dured, en·dur·ing.
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo: to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.
to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate: I cannot endure your insults any longer.
to admit of; allow; bear: His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.
verb (used without object), en·dured, en·dur·ing.
to continue to exist; last: These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.
to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently: Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured.
to have or gain continued or lasting acknowledgment or recognition, as of worth, merit or greatness: His plays have endured for more than three centuries.
Origin of endure
1275–1325; Middle English
enduren < Anglo-French, Old French
endurer < Latin
indūrāre to harden, make lasting, equivalent to
in-
in-2 +
dūrāre to last, be or become hard, derivative of
dūrus hard
SYNONYMS FOR endure
historical usage of endure
From a word for a tree known for its hard and durable wood, we get
endure, a word that evokes both lastingness (durability) and the ability to withstand or bear. Its history tells you why.
Endure comes from Old French endurer “to make hard, harden, bear.” The Old French verb is a regular development of Latin indūrāre, with the same meanings. Indūrāre is a derivative of the adjective dūrus, which has a wide range of meanings, including “hard, firm, solid, constipated, dull, obtuse, pitiless, oppressive.”
Dūrus comes from an unrecorded drūr(us), dūr- (drūr-), being the Latin development of the Proto-Indo-European root deru-, doru-, drew-, drū- “oak tree, tree,” which is very common throughout the Indo-European languages and has many variants and suffixes. In Greek, dóry means “wood, tree, tree trunk, spear”; drŷs means “tree, oak tree” (sacred to Zeus); Dōrieús “a Dorian” was “a Greek (originally) from Dōrís (the ancient Greek region of Doris, literally, Forestlands).” The Old Irish noun drūi “druid” ultimately comes from dru-wid- “strong seer”; from the variant drew-. Old Church Slavonic has drĕvo “tree.” In Germanic, drew- becomes triu “tree, wood,” which becomes trēow in Old English (English tree ).
Endure comes from Old French endurer “to make hard, harden, bear.” The Old French verb is a regular development of Latin indūrāre, with the same meanings. Indūrāre is a derivative of the adjective dūrus, which has a wide range of meanings, including “hard, firm, solid, constipated, dull, obtuse, pitiless, oppressive.”
Dūrus comes from an unrecorded drūr(us), dūr- (drūr-), being the Latin development of the Proto-Indo-European root deru-, doru-, drew-, drū- “oak tree, tree,” which is very common throughout the Indo-European languages and has many variants and suffixes. In Greek, dóry means “wood, tree, tree trunk, spear”; drŷs means “tree, oak tree” (sacred to Zeus); Dōrieús “a Dorian” was “a Greek (originally) from Dōrís (the ancient Greek region of Doris, literally, Forestlands).” The Old Irish noun drūi “druid” ultimately comes from dru-wid- “strong seer”; from the variant drew-. Old Church Slavonic has drĕvo “tree.” In Germanic, drew- becomes triu “tree, wood,” which becomes trēow in Old English (English tree ).
OTHER WORDS FROM endure
en·dur·er, noun un·en·dured, adjectiveExample sentences from the Web for enduring
British Dictionary definitions for enduring (1 of 2)
enduring
/ (ɪnˈdjʊərɪŋ) /
adjective
permanent; lasting
having forbearance; long-suffering
Derived forms of enduring
enduringly, adverb enduringness, nounBritish Dictionary definitions for enduring (2 of 2)
endure
/ (ɪnˈdjʊə) /
verb
to undergo (hardship, strain, privation, etc) without yielding; bear
(tr)
to permit or tolerate
(intr)
to last or continue to exist
Derived forms of endure
endurable, adjective endurability or endurableness, noun endurably, adverbWord Origin for endure
C14: from Old French
endurer, from Latin
indūrāre to harden, from
dūrus hard