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1. Existing for a long time
   "a long-lasting friendship"; "a lasting relationship";
   - durable, long-lasting, long-lived
    
2. Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
   "lasting secretary to the president";
   - permanent
    
3. (biology) retained; not shed
   - persistent

1. Persist for a specified period of time
   "The bad weather lasted for three days";
   - endure
    
2. Continue to live and avoid dying
   "how long can a person last without food and water?";
   - survive, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

See also: abiding, aeonian, ageless, enduring, eonian [N. Amer], eternal, everlasting, eviternal [archaic], imperishable, indissoluble, ineradicable, long, permanence, permanency, perpetual, stable, standing, unceasing, unchangeable, unending

Type of: measure

Antonym: caducous, ephemeral, fugacious, here today and gone tomorrow [informal], here today gone tomorrow [informal], passing, short-lived, transient, transitory

Encyclopedia: Lasting