All 19 Uses of
immortal
in
The Hidden Oracle
- But in all my immortal life, I never before crash-landed in a Dumpster.†
p. 3.4
- I knew my immortality had been stripped away, but I still considered myself the mighty Apollo!†
p. 7.0 *immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- Immortal gods do not get acne.†
p. 21.4
- For children blessed with an immortal parent, they were strangely sensitive about their backgrounds.†
p. 23.0
- If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself.†
p. 30.9
- You will have immortal fame for this, Sally Jackson!†
p. 41.1
- I resented that these two demigods could carry on a conversation while running for their lives while I, the immortal Apollo, was reduced to gasping like a catfish.†
p. 59.1
- We are immortal.†
p. 62.3
- But as you've seen, immortality can be taken away.†
p. 62.4immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- He was immortal, yet his visible age seemed to vary from century to century.†
p. 93.5
- I promised myself that once I achieved immortality again, I would assemble the Nine Muses and together we would create an ode, a hymnal to the power of bacon, which would move the heavens to tears and cause rapture across the universe.†
p. 132.7immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- Even with an immortal monster a hundred feet above us, she had the nerve to stay on task.†
p. 167.8
- They can't all be immortal.†
p. 245.7
- I am immortal on Wikipedia!†
p. 275.4
- She had given birth to a new, better breed of immortals.†
p. 285.6immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- But she was someone I didn't know at all: stepdaughter to the immortal crazy Nero.†
p. 286.1
- Among immortals, our reliance on humans was an uncomfortable subject.†
p. 344.7immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- Percy and I sat at the picnic table with Leo and his companion—none other than the immortal sorceress Calypso.†
p. 351.7
- She may not have been immortal anymore, but she still had a grace and easiness about her that I could not fathom.†
p. 359.2
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.