IMMORTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immortal mean? 

• IMMORTAL (noun)
  The noun IMMORTAL has 2 senses:

1. a person (such as an author) of enduring fame

2. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

  Familiarity information: IMMORTAL used as a noun is rare.

• IMMORTAL (adjective)
  The adjective IMMORTAL has 1 sense:

1. not subject to death

  Familiarity information: IMMORTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMORTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person (such as an author) of enduring fame

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

Shakespeare is one of the immortals

Hypernyms ("immortal" is a kind of...):

celebrity; famous person (a widely known person)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deity; divinity; god; immortal

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"):

Japanese deity (a deity worshipped by the Japanese)

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)

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)

Quetzalcoatl (an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent)

Morpheus (the Roman god of sleep and dreams)

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)

• IMMORTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject to death

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 

But what he had seen in her eyes was soul—immortal soul that could never die.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

According to your ideas, he, too, must be an immortal millionaire.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One day, in much good company, I was asked by a person of quality, “whether I had seen any of their struldbrugs, or immortals?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is only when he raises himself, and concerns himself with the immortal spirit within him, that he becomes in very truth a man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The serial transplantation proves that the HAN is immortal

(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Oh, madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I know, and you know, that were I once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit, even as you did my poor Lucy's.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant's treasures, if I remember rightly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I—a—I'll know nobody—and—a—say nothing—and—a—live nowhere—until I have crushed—to—a—undiscoverable atoms—the—transcendent and immortal hypocrite and perjurer—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)