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immortal

 adjective
     
im‧mor‧tal
1 living or continuing for ever [≠ mortal]:
Plato believed that the soul is immortal.
2 an immortal line, play, song etc is so famous that it will never be forgotten:
In the immortal words of Henry Ford, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
—immortal noun [countable]
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