Usually means: Continuing forever without interruption.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word perpetual:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. perpetual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. perpetual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perpetual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perpetual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perpetual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perpetual: Wordnik
  7. perpetual: Wiktionary
  8. perpetual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. perpetual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. perpetual: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Perpetual, perpetual: Dictionary.com
  12. perpetual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. perpetual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Perpetual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. perpetual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. perpetual: Rhymezone
  17. perpetual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. perpetual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. perpetual: Free Dictionary
  20. perpetual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. perpetual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. perpetual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. perpetual: Wordnik
  24. Perpetual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. perpetual: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perpetual: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perpetual: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perpetual: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perpetual: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See perpetually as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.
adjective:  Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration.
adjective:  Continuing; uninterrupted.
adjective:  (botany) Flowering throughout the growing season.
noun:  Ellipsis of perpetual check. [(chess) A draw forced by one player by putting the opponent's king in a potentially infinite series of checks.]

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