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IMMORTAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Synonyms:
deity; divinity; god; immortal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("immortal" is a kind of...):
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immortal"):
snake god; zombi; zombie (a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies)
god of war; war god (a god worshipped as giving victory in war)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Phrygian deity (deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor)
Anglo-Saxon deity ((Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons)
Teutonic deity ((German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons)
Norse deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen)
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)
Graeco-Roman deity; Greco-Roman deity (a deity of classical mythology)
demiurge (a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe)
earth-god; earth god (a god of fertility and vegetation)
goddess (a female deity)
Japanese deity (a deity worshipped by the Japanese)
Chinese deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese)
Persian deity (a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians)
Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)
Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)
Egyptian deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)
Celtic deity (a deity worshipped by the Celts)
sun god (a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun)
sea god (a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea)
daemon; demigod (a person who is part mortal and part god)
Instance hyponyms:
Arhant; Arhat; lohan (a Buddhist who has attained nirvana)
Boddhisatva; Bodhisattva (Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others)
Morpheus (the Roman god of sleep and dreams)
Quetzalcoatl (an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent)
Hypnos ((Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx)
Demogorgon ((Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld)
Holonyms ("immortal" is a member of...):
pantheon (all the gods of a religion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person (such as an author) of enduring fame
Example:
Shakespeare is one of the immortals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("immortal" is a kind of...):
celebrity; famous person (a widely known person)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not subject to death
Classified under:
Similar:
amaranthine; unfading (of an imaginary flower that never fades)
deathless; undying (never dying)
deific (characterized by divine or godlike nature)
Also:
infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)
heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)
Antonym:
mortal (subject to death)
Derivation:
immortality (the quality or state of being immortal)
Context examples:
To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I cried out, as in a rapture, Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal!
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I am sure there is a future state; I believe God is good; I can resign my immortal part to Him without any misgiving.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"But on my honor, I never will do so again, and henceforth devote myself to the interest of this immortal club."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was exactly the same as ever, and the same immortal butterflies hovered over her cap.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But if we are immortal, what is the reason for this?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to my own contemporaries.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Such society revives, regenerates: you feel better days come back—higher wishes, purer feelings; you desire to recommence your life, and to spend what remains to you of days in a way more worthy of an immortal being.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At first we strayed to and fro among the trees: I with Dora's shy arm drawn through mine: and Heaven knows, folly as it all was, it would have been a happy fate to have been struck immortal with those foolish feelings, and have stayed among the trees for ever!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
