Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Immortal"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Immortal \Im*mor"tal\, n.
One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay,
or annihilation. --Bunyan.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

immortal
adj : not subject to death [ant: {mortal}]
n 1: a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; "Shakespeare
is one of the immortals"
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 [syn: {deity}, {divinity}, {god}]

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