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im⋅mor⋅tal

[i-mawr-tl]
–adjective
1. not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
2. remembered or celebrated through all time: the immortal words of Lincoln.
3. not liable to perish or decay; imperishable; everlasting.
4. perpetual; lasting; constant: an immortal enemy.
5. of or pertaining to immortal beings or immortality.
6. (of a laboratory-cultured cell line) capable of dividing indefinitely.
–noun
7. an immortal being.
8. a person of enduring fame: Bach, Milton, El Greco, and other immortals.
9. the Immortals, the 40 members of the French Academy.
10. (often initial capital letter) any of the gods of classical mythology.

Origin:
1325–75; ME (adj.) < L immortālis. See im- 2 , mortal


im⋅mor⋅tal⋅ly, adverb


8. giant, titan, genius.
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.
n.  
  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.

Immortal

Im*mor"tal\, a. [L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See Mortal, and cf. Immortelle.]

1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.

Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. --1 Tim. i. 17.

For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? --Shak.

2. Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.

I have immortal longings in me. --Shak.

3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.

One of the few, immortal names, That were not born yo die. --Halleck.

4. Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] --Hayward.

Immortal flowers, imortelles; everlastings.

Syn: Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying.

Immortal

Im*mor"tal\, n. One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. --Bunyan.
Language Translation for : immortal
Spanish: inmortal,
German: unsterblich,
Japanese: 不滅の

immortal 
"deathless," c.1374, from L. immortalis, from in- "not" + mortalis "mortal" (see mortal (adj.)). In ref. to fame, literature, etc., attested from 1514.
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