1. happily ever after - Noun
2. happily ever after - Adverb
3. happily ever after - Phrase
(idiomatic) A period of time, imagined never to end, in which (typically) a loving couple live untroubled, happy lives together.
Synonym: fairy-tale ending
A story with such a happy ending, such as a romance novel or fairy tale.
happily ever after
(idiomatic, often preceded by "they lived") Happily until death; used in a formulaic ending for fairy tales.
And they lived happily ever after.
happily-ever-after (plural happily-ever-afters)
Alternative form of happily ever after.
happily-ever-after
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after. Roald Dahl
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Cat Stevens
I think we ought to live happily ever after. Diana Wynne Jones
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. Piper Laurie
I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work. Orson Scott Card