Definition of Perennial

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Perennial

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.

Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.

A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

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Perennial Quotations

Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Walter Lippmann

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
George Martin

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt Clinton

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
Rob Morrow

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
Pat Oliphant

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
Gary Lineker

Perennial Translations

perennial in Latin is jugis

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