imperishable — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.

   Beispiele

   an imperishable monument

   The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.

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   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.'

Substantiv

1. something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time

   Gebrauch

   • in-plural

Adjektiv

1. not perishable

   Antonyme

   perishable

2. lasting a long time

   Synonyme

   abidingenduring

   Beispiele

   an abiding belief

   imperishable truths