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What Is the Latin Word for Immortal

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immortal

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adjective

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

remembered or celebrated through all time: the immortal words of Lincoln.

not liable to perish or decay; imperishable; everlasting.

perpetual; lasting; constant: an immortal enemy.

of or relating to immortal beings or immortality.

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

noun

an immortal being.

a person of enduring fame: Bach, Milton, El Greco, and other immortals.

the Immortals, the 40 members of the French Academy.

(often initial capital letter) any of the gods of classical mythology.

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Origin of immortal

1325–75; Middle English (adj.) <Latin immortālis.See im-2, mortal

OTHER WORDS FROM immortal

im·mor·tal·ly, adverb qua·si-im·mor·tal, adjective qua·si-im·mor·tal·ly, adverb

Words nearby immortal

immoral, immoralism, immoralist, immorality, immoralize, immortal, immortality, immortalize, Immortals, immortelle, immotile

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021

How to use immortal in a sentence

  • So masterfully do we hide death, you would almost believe we are the first generation of immortals.

  • In the immortal words of Outkast, "the South got something to say."

  • Scrooge has become such an immortal character because he somehow speaks to our worst and best selves.

  • So even the most unchanging component of potentially immortal DNA is immersed in anitya, constantly refashioning itself.

  • That he skipped old age to go straight to eternal cannot, and does not, surprise his fans, and yet the evidence that he was not immortal remains hard to digest.

  • Immortal "The love I have, for my music, for my husband, for my child, is something that will last far beyond my life."

  • Many still speak of the deceased president with epitaphs such as "The Giant," "The Immortal," and "The Eternal Comandante."

  • And, of course, the immortal films of Joel and Ethan Coen, from The Big Lebowski to O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • Not only are they (effectively) immortal, but they can draw on their productive capacity to pay debts.

  • It took you about a decade to research and write The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

  • But it was neither his talents as a diplomatist, nor his remarkable mind, nor his solid erudition, which made Nicot immortal.

  • At this moment the strains of Arditi's immortal waltz, "Il Bacio," resounded through the place.

  • No lawgiver had ever been able to devise a perfect and immortal form of government.

  • Of all the great problems and precious interests which belong to me as a mortal or immortal being, science knows nothing.

  • Possibly their sole possessions consisted of the clothes they had on, a few bad pictures, and their several immortal geniuses.

British Dictionary definitions for immortal


adjective

not subject to death or decay; having perpetual life

having everlasting fame; remembered throughout time

everlasting; perpetual; constant

of or relating to immortal beings or concepts

noun

an immortal being

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

Derived forms of immortal

immortality, noun immortally, adverb

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

What Is the Latin Word for Immortal

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