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US
/ˌɪˈmɔɹtəɫ/
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[ UK /ɪmˈɔːtəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪmˈɔːtəl/ ]
NOUN
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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
ADJECTIVE
- not subject to death
How To Use immortal In A Sentence
- Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
- The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
- He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won. The Sun
- The hero of philately became an immortal, but all he really invented was the idea of the glue on the back.
- `You promised then you would immortalize the heroes of that day," said Quaver. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
- -- and that they lived in other worlds -- but there is no passage showing that they believed in what we call the immortality of the soul. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
- They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
- These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
- The fact that we do not have immortal souls does not justify unethical behavior.
- These immortal ideas, things barely perceptible are the most precious things of life.