Meaning of immortal in English

immortal

adjective

/ɪˈmɔːr.t̬əl/ uk

/ɪˈmɔː.təl/

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living or lasting forever:

immortal God

The priest said he was endangering his immortal soul.

very special and famous and therefore likely to be remembered for a long time:

immortal words In the immortal words of Samuel Goldwyn, "Include me out."

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immortal

noun

literary

/ɪˈmɔːr.t̬əl/ uk

/ɪˈmɔː.təl/

[ C ]

someone who is so famous that they are remembered for a long time after they are dead:

She is one of the immortals of classical opera.

the immortals [ plural ]

the Greek or Roman gods:

Mercury was the Roman messenger to the immortals.

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(Definition of immortal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

immortal | Intermediate English

immortal

adjective [ not gradable ]

/ɪˈmɔr·t̬əl/

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living or lasting forever, or so famous as to be remembered for a very long time:

Teenagers think they are immortal.

Churchill made his immortal speech about the Iron Curtain in Missouri.

immortality

noun [ U ] us

/ˌɪm·ɔrˈtæl·ɪ·t̬i/

A place in history is the only kind of immortality open to us.

(Definition of immortal from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of immortal

immortal

A cell that reproduces endlessly sounds like a good thing at first -- that cell would be immortal.

From TIME

But this sort of spontaneously, naturally immortal cell like hers, for a human cell, yeah, there hasn't been one quite like hers.

From NPR

So you can take a normal cell and make it become immortal.

From NPR

Big-name titles came and went, and a select few have become immortals in their own right.

From International Business Times

He'd been trying to grow an immortal human cell line in culture for decades, and it had never worked.

From NPR

For decades the prevalent view -- the common wisdom of parenting manuals -- was that teenagers feel invulnerable, immortal.

From Huffington Post

He is pouring his immortal spirit down the drain, half a pint at a time.

From TIME

The harsh realities of life has made him immortal in the minds of the history-loving public worldwide.

From Voice of America

Writing became a storage medium, making words potentially immortal.

From Slate Magazine

The movie is dedicated to these two comedy immortals.

From TIME

They are immortal, so much so that we are enjoying this resurgence of this movie some 55 years after it was released.

From A.V. Club

They're good-looking, powerful, dangerous, immortal, eternally youthful, and not bound by any laws or morality except their conscience, if they have one.

From Huffington Post

In doing this, he must have had a consciousness, however dim, of having endangered his immortal soul.

From Slate Magazine

And that has affected the way we see ourselves --as potentially immortal if we stay symptom free.

From Huffington Post

But it has the potential from what we know about it for being immortal.

From Wired

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