For us, the ephemerals, they can also be eternal and immutable. It may also have left them somewhat unrelated, between their own lives and the eternal mysteries. In another, he warns that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” according to a recording in the Detroit News. Here too, we have the Lorraine landscape and the eternal and infinitely diverse theme of rural work. Hosts are by nature “eternal beginners” – each bidder effectively starts from scratch on a mega project where there is almost no relevant institutional memory to operate in that city. The Fountain of Youth is a mythical water source that rewards its bathers with eternal life, free from disease and death forever. The Latin root of the eternal is aeternalis, roughly translated as “of great age,” and eternal things are really, really ancient. Eternal can describe an abstract idea that never changes, like the eternal truths of war, or it can describe a nuisance you want to end, like the eternal boredom you feel when you watch a really boring movie. What seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.
But even as the glamour of competitions and bikinis faded, his images still attract attention today, an exuberance of sex and life imbued with the permanence of an eternal flame. Motivated by eternal salvation, parents and leaders ensured that the children learned to read. If something lasts forever or just feels like it will last forever, you can call it eternal, which means it goes on and on and on and will never change or end. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your essential guide to English language problems. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press!.