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im·mor·tal

(ĭ-môr′tl)

adj.

1. Not subject to death: immortal deities; the immortal soul.

2. Never to be forgotten; everlasting: immortal words.

3. Of or relating to immortality.

4. Biology Capable of indefinite growth or division. Used of cells in culture.

1. One not subject to death.

2. One whose fame is enduring.

[Middle English, from Old French immortel, from Latin immortālis; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

im·mor′tal·ly adv.

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immortal

(ɪˈmɔːtəl)

adj

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

5. an immortal being

6. (often plural) a person who is remembered enduringly, esp an author: Dante is one of the immortals.

ˌimmorˈtality n

imˈmortally adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

im•mor•tal

(ɪˈmɔr tl)

adj.

1. not mortal; not liable or subject to death: immortal souls.

2. not liable to perish or decay; everlasting: immortal wisdom.

3. perpetual; constant: an immortal enemy.

4. of or pertaining to immortal beings or immortality.

5. (of a laboratory-cultured cell line) capable of dividing indefinitely.

6. an immortal being.

7. a person of enduring fame.

8. (often cap.) any of the gods of classical mythology.

[1325–75; Middle English < Latin]

im•mor′tal•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	immortal - a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; "Shakespeare is one of the immortals" celebrity, famous person - a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity"
	2.	immortal - any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force deity, divinity, god pantheon - all the gods of a religion spiritual being, supernatural being - an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events daemon, demigod - a person who is part mortal and part god sea god - a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea sun god - a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun Celtic deity - a deity worshipped by the Celts Egyptian deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians Semitic deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites Hindu deity - a deity worshipped by the Hindus Persian deity - a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians Chinese deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese Japanese deity - a deity worshipped by the Japanese goddess - a female deity earth god, earth-god - a god of fertility and vegetation demiurge - a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe Graeco-Roman deity, Greco-Roman deity - a deity of classical mythology Greek deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks Roman deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans Norse deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen Teutonic deity - (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons Anglo-Saxon deity - (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons Phrygian deity - deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor saint - a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization god of war, war god - a god worshipped as giving victory in war snake god, zombi, zombie - a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
Adj.	1.	immortal - not subject to death infinite - having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite wealth" heavenly - of or belonging to heaven or god mortal - subject to death; "mortal beings"

immortal

adjective

1. timeless, eternal, everlasting, lasting, traditional, classic, constant, enduring, persistent, abiding, perennial, ageless, unfading Wuthering Heights - that immortal love story.
timeless passing, fleeting, ephemeral

2. undying, eternal, perpetual, indestructible, death-defying, imperishable, deathless They were considered gods and therefore immortal.
undying mortal, temporary, fading, transitory, perishable

noun

1. hero, genius, paragon, great They had paid £50 a head just to be in the presence of an immortal.

2. god, goddess, deity, Olympian, divine being, immortal being In the legend, the fire is supposed to turn him into an immortal.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

immortal

adjective

1. Not being subject to death:

deathless, undying.

2. Enduring for all time:

amaranthine, ceaseless, endless, eternal, everlasting, never-ending, perpetual, unending, world without end.

Archaic: eterne.

Translations

خالِد

nesmrtelný

udødelig

unsterblich

αθάνατος

inmortal

جاویدان

kuolematon

immortel immortelle

besmrtanbesmrtnicabesmrtnik

halhatatlan

ódauîlegur

immortale

įamžintinemirtingasnemirtingumaspadaryti nemirtingą

nemirstīgs

nesmrteľný

nesmrten

odödlig

ölümsüz

不朽的

immortal

[ɪˈmɔːtl]

A. ADJ [person, god] → inmortal; [memory, fame] → imperecedero

B. N → inmortal mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

immortal

[ɪˈmɔː^rt^əl]

adj

(living for ever) → immortel(le)

(= enduringly famous) → immortel(le)

(= immortal being) → immortel(le) m/f

(= celebrity, star) → gloire f
an immortal of soccer → une gloire du football

immortal

adj person, soul, God, phrase → unsterblich; fame also → unvergänglich, ewig; life → ewig; in the immortal words of … → in den unsterblichen Worten +gen → …

n → Unsterbliche(r) mf

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

immortal

[ɪˈmɔːtl] adj & n → immortale (m/f)

immortal

(iˈmoːtl) adjective

living for ever and never dying. A person's soul is said to be immortal; the immortal works of Shakespeare.

ˌimmorˈtality (-ˈtӕ-) noun

imˈmortalize, imˈmortalise verb

to make (a person etc) famous for ever. He wrote a song immortalizing the battle.

immortal

a. inmortal, imperecedero-a.

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I cried out, as in a rapture, "Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal! Happy people, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages!

After a short silence, the same person told me, "that his friends and mine (so he thought fit to express himself) were very much pleased with the judicious remarks I had made on the great happiness and advantages of immortal life, and they were desirous to know, in a particular manner, what scheme of living I should have formed to myself, if it had fallen to my lot to have been born a STRULDBRUG."

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And should an immortal being seriously think of this little space rather than of the whole?

Are you not aware, I said, that the soul of man is immortal and imperishable?

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--I am immortal then, on land and on sea, cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision; -- Immortal on land and on sea!

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Unwearying flows the sweet sound from their lips, and the house of their father Zeus the loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses as it spread abroad, and the peaks of snowy Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals. And they uttering their immortal voice, celebrate in song first of all the reverend race of the gods from the beginning, those whom Earth and wide Heaven begot, and the gods sprung of these, givers of good things.

And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden.

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But thou art immortal and dost never fade, but bloomest for ever in renewed youth."

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He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, "Mother," he cried, "you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious.

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The general tuckermanities are arrant Bubbles - ephemeral and so transparent - But this is, now, - you may depend upon it - Stable, opaque, immortal - all by dint Of the dear names that lie concealed within 't.

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Menelaus overheard him and said, "No one, my sons, can hold his own with Jove, for his house and everything about him is immortal; but among mortal men--well, there may be another who has as much wealth as I have, or there may not; but at all events I have travelled much and have undergone much hardship, for it was nearly eight years before I could get home with my fleet.

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But the great legend of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fascinating and immortal, in our minds.