Immortal - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ɪˈmɔːrtl|  American pronunciation of the word immortal
Brit.  |ɪˈmɔːt(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word immortal

noun

- a person (such as an author) of enduring fame
Shakespeare is one of the immortals
- any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force (syn: deity, divinity, god)

adjective

- not subject to death

Extra examples

...the age-old quest for immortal fame...

...vowed that his hatred of that family was immortal and that someday he'd get his revenge...

Dracula, immortal murderer

The forty members of French Academy are called "immortals".

Plato believed that the soul is immortal.

In the immortal words of Henry Ford, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'

Shakespeare is one of the immortals

...in the midst of those tenebrous days Thomas Paine penned the immortal words “These are the times that try men's souls”...

An immortal soul imprisoned in a cage of cartilage and of skin. (D. Brewster, More Worlds than One, 1854)

The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it

'Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly

Word forms

noun
singular: immortal
plural: immortals
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