duration

Definitions


[djʊˈreɪʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the time during which something continues
(e.g: bicycle hire for the duration of your holiday)


Phrases:
- for the duration

Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare ‘to last’, from durus ‘hard’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries