eternal

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UK /ɪˈtɜː.nl̩/ US /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/

adj 4noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

alone, immortal, perfect, perpetual, present

She had always dreamed of finding eternal love with someone who truly understood her.

VERB + ETERNAL

am, believe, belong, change, claims, crowned, desire, die

I believe eternal love is what every person searches for in their lifetime.

ETERNAL + NOUN

death, human, life, novices, pc-newbie, peace, pinnacle, reality

The search for eternal peace has motivated philosophers and spiritual seekers throughout human history.

PREP.

after, after, in, in, with

She struggled with eternal doubts about whether she had made the right decision.

Definitions

adj

Lasting forever; unending.

But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.

Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.

Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.

Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.

Beneath him you might have seen the three of us - myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.

Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

some eternal villain

noun

One who lives forever; an immortal.

Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — tiresomely long

adjective — continuing forever or indefinitely

ageless
aeonian
eonian
everlasting
perpetual
unending
unceasing

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

hope springs eternal

The feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself.

Hope''' ſprings eternal in the human breaſt; / Man never is, but always to be bleſt.

hope springs eternal in the human breast

Alternative form of hope springs eternal.

eternal triangle

A relationship involving three persons (usually two women and one man or two men and one woman) among whom there are conflicting and competing attachments of a romantic or emotional nature.

"There weren't even any words," she said. "He knocked Loerke down and stunned him, he half strangled me, then he went away." To herself she was saying: "A pretty little sample of t

eternal sleep

A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a

on eternal patrol

Lost at sea.

WHEREAS, since 1900, there are 65 United States manned submarines representing more than 4,000 lost lives which never returned from duty and remain On Eternal Patrol; […]

Example Bank

But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.

Wiktionary

Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.

Wiktionary

Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you a

Wiktionary

Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators

Wiktionary

That every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

Tatoeba · #42307

That whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Tatoeba · #42460

Usage Notes

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