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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
duration
    n 1: the period of time during which something continues [syn:
         duration, continuance]
    2: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn:
       duration, continuance]
    3: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration";
       "he complained about the length of time required" [syn:
       duration, length]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Duration \Du*ra"tion\, n. [OF. duration. See Dure.]
   The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the
   portion of time during which anything exists.
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         It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should
         be limited.                              --Macaulay.
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         Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D.
                                                  Webster.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for duration:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abidingness, age, antiquity, changelessness, chronology, constancy, continuance, continuation, continuity, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duree, endurance, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintenance, perdurability, perennation, period, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, psychological time, quiescence, rigidity, run, solidity, space, space-time, span, spell, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, survival, survivance, tense, tenure, term, the future, the past, the present, tide, time, timebinding, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, while
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