verb
Meaning 1
To give unending life to, to make immortal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
immortalise
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/
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verb
Meaning 2
To make eternally famous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
make famous forever
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This melody immortalized its composer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: immortalize, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
Meaning 4
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- We memorialized the Dead
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, record
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remind
Narrower terms: monumentalize, monumentalise
History
Etymology
From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: ölümsüzləşdirmək — to give unending life to
- Bulgarian: обезсмъртявам (obezsmǎrtjavam) — to give unending life to
- Catalan: immortalitzar — to give unending life to
- Finnish: tehdä kuolemattomaksi — to give unending life to
- French: immortaliser — to give unending life to
- Galician: inmortalizar — to give unending life to
- Indonesian: mengekalkan — to give unending life to
- Indonesian: mengabadikan — to give unending life to
- Italian: immortalizzare — to give unending life to
- Latin: aeterno — to give unending life to
- Ligurian: immortalizzâ — to give unending life to
- Portuguese: imortalizar — to give unending life to
- Spanish: inmortalizar — to give unending life to
- Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek — to give unending life to
- Azerbaijani: əbədiləşdirmək — to make eternally famous
- Bulgarian: увековечавам (uvekovečavam) — to make eternally famous
- Catalan: immortalitzar — to make eternally famous
- Danish: udødeliggøre — to make eternally famous
- Dutch: vereeuwigen — to make eternally famous
- Finnish: ikuistaa — to make eternally famous
- French: immortaliser — to make eternally famous
- Galician: inmortalizar — to make eternally famous
- Polish: uwieczniać — to make eternally famous
- Polish: uwiecznić — to make eternally famous
- Polish: unieśmiertelniać — to make eternally famous
- Polish: unieśmiertelnić — to make eternally famous
- Polish: utrwalać — to make eternally famous
- Polish: utrwalić — to make eternally famous
- Polish: upamiętniać — to make eternally famous
- Polish: upamiętnić — to make eternally famous
- Portuguese: imortalizar — to make eternally famous
- Spanish: inmortalizar — to make eternally famous
- Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek — to make eternally famous