All 12 Uses of
immortal
in
The House of Hades
- She'd never felt sorry for a Titan before, but it didn't seem right taking a brainwashed immortal and turning him into an unpaid janitor.†
p. 160.6
- They couldn't be caught by six or seven hostile immortals.†
p. 169.6 *immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- Of course he knew his dad was immortal, but somehow the full meaning of that had never really sunk in until now, as he stared at a doorway Romans had walked through, thousands of years ago, to worship his dad.†
p. 274.3
- Then he remembered that this annoying fifteen-year-old girl was actually the immortal daughter of a Titan.†
p. 394.2
- Even among the Hephaestus campers, Leo had never worked with anyone as intuitive as this immortal gardener girl.†
p. 403.3
- I can't be in love with an immortal girl.†
p. 404.7
- She kissed his immortal nose, which made him blink.†
p. 423.6
- Easy for an immortal wind god to say.†
p. 442.3
- Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings.†
p. 452.9
- Daedalus was nothing compared to me—the immortal sorceress, daughter of Helios, sister of Circe!†
p. 544.9
- But Pasiphae was an immortal sorceress with thousands of years of experience in weaving spells.†
p. 546.4
- I am immortal!†
p. 550.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.