Results for duration

Definitions of duration:

part of speech: noun

Continuance; length in time; power of continuance; permanency.

part of speech: noun

Continuance in time; as, the duration of the Civil War was about four years.

Usage examples for duration:

• The brothers were not less delighted to see their little sister, but their joy was of short duration "Household Tales by Brothers Grimm", Grimm Brothers

• 1768. The duration of parliament limited to eight years. "Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry", Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston

• It was at this time that, during a stay of some weeks duration in an English port, I met with one who won my affections; and, one year after, we were married. "The Path of Duty, and Other Stories", H. S. Caswell

• The effect of this bombardment of only six days' duration was decisive. "The Franco-German War of 1870-71", Count Helmuth, von Moltke