imperishable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
Meanings
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Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313:The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 127:an imperishable monument
Deriveds
imperishably · imperishableness
Translations (20)
pl nieginący (not perishable) · fi ikuinen (not perishable) · grc ἄφθιτος (not perishable) · got 𐌿𐌽𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (not perishable) · fr impérissable (not perishable) · pdt onvejenkjlich (not perishable) · pl niezniszczalny (not perishable) · fi häviämätön (not perishable) · ca imperible (not perishable) · nl onvergankelijk (not perishable) · sa अनश्वर (not perishable) · es imperecedero (not perishable) · pt imperecível (not perishable) · fi vanhenematon (not perishable) · sa अक्षय (not perishable) · hi अविनाशी (not perishable) · sa अमृत (not perishable) · hi अक्षय (not perishable) · hy անկորնչելի (not perishable) · it imperituro (not perishable)