(immortals)
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Someone or something that is immortal is famous and likely to be remembered for a long time.
...Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's immortal love story...
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An immortal is someone who is immortal.
He called Moore 'one of the immortals of soccer'.
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• immortality
Some people want to achieve immortality through their works.
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Someone or something that is immortal will live or last for ever and never die or be destroyed.
The pharaohs were considered gods and therefore immortal.
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An immortal is an immortal being.
...porcelain figurines of the Chinese immortals.
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• immortality
The Greeks accepted belief in the immortality of the soul.
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If you refer to someone's immortal words, you mean that what they said is well-known, and you are usually about to quote it.
...Roosevelt's immortal words, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.'
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