Usually means: Continue despite difficulty or delay.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word persevere:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. persevere: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. persevere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. persevere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. persevere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. persevere: Vocabulary.com
  6. Persevere, persevere: Wordnik
  7. persevere: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. persevere: Wiktionary
  9. persevere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. persevere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. persevere: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Persevere, persevere: Dictionary.com
  13. persevere: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. persevere: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Persevere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Persevere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. persevere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. persevere: Rhymezone
  19. persevere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. persevere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. persevere: Free Dictionary
  22. persevere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. persevere: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. persevere: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Persevere: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. persevere: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persevere: Idioms

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

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To stay constant; to continue in a certain state; to remain.

Similar:
persist, hang in, hang on, hold on, push on, stay the distance, plug away, stick it out, keep on truckin', plough through, more...

Opposite:
give up, quit, stop

Phrases:
persevere in, able to persevere, persevere through difficult times, to persevere despite hardships, not persevere, more...

Adjectives:
long, few, many, less, bad, british

Colors:
    indigo,     forest green,     maroon,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     olive,     burgundy,     teal,     rust,     mahogany


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Similar:
persist, hang in, hang on, hold on, push on, stay the distance, plug away, stick it out, keep on truckin', plough through, more...

Opposite:
give up, quit, stop

Phrases:
persevere in, able to persevere, persevere through difficult times, to persevere despite hardships, not persevere, to persevere despite troubles, more...

Adjectives:
long, few, many, less, bad, british

Colors:
    indigo,     forest green,     maroon,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     olive,     burgundy,     teal,     rust,     mahogany



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