perennial.
Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
Meaning & usage
Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
a perennial stream
Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; never-ending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.
His artwork has a perennial beauty.
Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.
a perennial candidate in elections
Change is a perennial theme in politics.
Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent. Appearing again each year; annual.
Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
Where this word comes from
The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Perennis is derived from per- (“completive or intensifying prefix with the sense of doing something all the way through or entirely”) + annus (“year; season, time”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et- (“to go”)). By surface analysis, per- + -ennial. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Middle French pérenne (modern French pérenne (“lasting through the whole year, perennial”)) * Italian perenne (“lasting for a long time”) * Spanish perenne (“eternal; permanent; a perennial plant”)
A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
A thing that lasts forever.
A person or thing (such as a problem) that appears or returns regularly.
Where this word comes from
The adjective is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Perennis is derived from per- (“completive or intensifying prefix with the sense of doing something all the way through or entirely”) + annus (“year; season, time”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et- (“to go”)). By surface analysis, per- + -ennial. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Middle French pérenne (modern French pérenne (“lasting through the whole year, perennial”)) * Italian perenne (“lasting for a long time”) * Spanish perenne (“eternal; permanent; a perennial plant”)
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