Usually means: Continuing forever without interruption.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word perpetual:

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