enduring - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɚ.ɪŋ/, /ɪnˈdɝ.ɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdjʊə.ɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈdjɔː.ɹɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
- Hyphenation: en‧dur‧ing
enduring (comparative more enduring, superlative most enduring)
- Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.
an enduring belief in democracy
- diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting
long-lasting
- Armenian: դիմացկուն (hy) (dimacʻkun)
- Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), продължителен (bg) (prodǎlžitelen)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: daŭrema
- German: beständig (de), andauernd (de), bleibend (de), ausdauernd (de), dauerhaft (de), anhaltend (de)
- Hindi: चिरस्थायी (hi) (cirasthāyī)
- Hungarian: tartós (hu)
- Macedonian: тра́ен (tráen)
- Maori: , matatū, tāroa, tūroa
- Middle English: dregh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: langvarig, vedvarende (no)
- Ottoman Turkish: پاینده (payende, payanda)
- Plautdietsch: bestendich, duarhauft
- Polish: trwały (pl) m, wytrzymały (pl) m
- Portuguese: perdurante
- Romanian: de durată, durabil (ro)
- Spanish: perdurar (es)
- Swedish: tålig (sv)
- Tibetan: སྲིང་བ་ (sring ba), ཐུབ་པ་ (thub pa)
- Tocharian B: eṃṣketstse
enduring
- present participle and gerund of endure
enduring (plural endurings)
- endurance
1854, James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians, page 14:
It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise […]