English Dictionary

Definition of “immortal”

immortal (ɪˈmɔːtəl Pronunciation for immortal

Definitions

adjective

  1. not subject to death or decay; having perpetual life
  2. having everlasting fame; remembered throughout time
  3. everlasting; perpetual; constant
  4. of or relating to immortal beings or concepts

noun

  1. an immortal being
  2. often plural a person who is remembered enduringly, esp an author ⇒ Dante is one of the immortals

Derived Forms

ˌimmorˈtality noun
imˈmortally adverb

Translations for 'immortal'

  • British English: immortal Someone or something that is immortal is famous and likely to be remembered for a long time. ADJECTIVEIt is an immortal love story.
  • Brazilian Portuguese: imortal
  • Chinese: 不朽的
  • European Spanish: inmortal
  • French: immortel immortelle
  • German: unsterblich
  • Italian: immortale
  • Japanese: >不朽の人や作品が
  • Korean: 불후의
  • Portuguese: imortal
  • Spanish: inmortal

Example Sentences Including 'immortal'

And then out Patsy flopped, to the immortal words: `She looks like a film star.
Sun, News of the World (2004)
But I leaned on top of the glass counter full of immortal animals and waited.
Wood, Ted Fools Gold
But they're still not immortal ; and one day death will catch the last of them.
Pritchard, John Night Sisters
She is also remembered for her immortal line regarding a patient: `He'd make a lovely corpse.
Jim Leavesley, George Biro THE MEDICAL MYSTERIES E-OMNIBUS (2001)
The Highbury boss and the stars he calls ` immortal " were saluted by 250,000 delirious Gooners during a celebration procession yesterday.
Sun, News of the World (2004)
The original reads: Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
New Scientist (1998)
The power on the hill at Kenavara had witnessed them and, in that witnessing, had drawn them into an immortal dance.
Clive Barker SACRAMENT (2001)
The rigour of the stone pile is threatened and, as we know in our immortal souls, rigour matters.
Globe and Mail (2003)
They do not come about because, in Harold Macmillan's immortal phrase, "things happen".
SA Star (2004)

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