eternal

• æternal (chiefly archaic)
• æternall (obsolete)
• eternall (obsolete)

From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈtɝnəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈtɜːnəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
• Hyphenation: eter‧nal

eternal (not comparable)

1. Lasting forever; unending.
   • John Locke

     to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal

   • Dryden

     Fires eternal in thy temple shine.

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.

2. (philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
3. (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

   some eternal villain

• (lasting forever; unending): unending, agelong, permanent, sempiternal, endless, everlasting
• (existing outside time): timeless, atemporal

• ephemeral

eternal (plural eternals)

1. One who lives forever; an immortal.
   • 2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto

     “Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators,” I said.

• enteral, teneral

eternal (masculine and feminine plural eternals)

1. eternal

• etern

• eterneel, eternall

Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from from Latin aeternālis; equivalent to eterne +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːtɛrˈnaːl/, /ɛːˈtɛrnal/, /ɛːtɛrˈnɛːl/

eternal

1. Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
2. Endless, unending; lasting forever.
3. (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.

• eterne

• English: eternal, tarnal
• Scots: eternal

• “ēternā̆l, -ē̆l (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

eternal (plural eternales)

1. eternal

• eterno