immortal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Able to live forever; never dying.

   In the story, the wizard drank a potion that made him immortal.

2. 2
   adj

   So famous or important that it will always be remembered.

   Shakespeare wrote the immortal line, "To be or not to be."

3. 3
   noun

   A god or being who lives forever.

   In Greek myth, the immortals lived on Mount Olympus.

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ. The term referring to the Persian soldiers was a Calque of Ancient Greek ἀθάνατος (athánatos). One suggestion claimed that "Immortals" were named by the ancient Greeks because wounded soldiers were quickly replaced, while another claimed that it was because Greek informants confused Old Persian *anauša- (“immortal, without death”) with Old Persian *anūšiya- (“comp…

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