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Definition: Eternal |
EternalAdjective1. Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven". 2. Lasting for an indefinitely long period of time. 3. Tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eternal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Eternal \E*ter"nal\, adjective. [French ['e]ternel, Latin aeternalis, from aeternus. See Etern.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the popular mind, eternal often simply means existing for an infinite, i.e., limitless, amount of time.It can also mean existing altogether outside of time. Augustine of Hippo wrote that time is a part of the created universe, so that God exists outside of time; for God there is no past or future, but only an eternal present. That position is accepted by many Catholic theologians. One need not believe in God in order to hold this concept of eternity: an atheist mathematician can maintain the philosophical tenet that numbers and the relationships among them exist outside of time, and so are in that sense eternal.
God and eternity
Theists say that God is eternally existent. Some theorists take this to mean that God is timeless--categories of past, present, and future just do not apply when we are talking about God. Others hold, instead, that "eternal existence" means that God exists at all times. In other words, if God is eternally existent, he has already existed for an infinite amount of time, and he will continue to exist for an infinite amount of time--his existence never began and will never end.
About the latter concept of eternity, it is common to observe that we finite human beings cannot really conceive of the infinite. If that were the case, then we could not understand what God's eternity was; an eternity is an infinite amount of time. But others say we have some notion of an infinity--of at least a potential infinity. The idea is that we do have the notion of a series that begins and has not ended. A series of moments that has begun and not ended is potentially infinite.
Related to the notion of eternal existence is the concept of God as Creator, as a being completely independent of "everything else" that exists because he created everything else. (Contrast this with panentheism.) If this premise is true, than it follows that God is independent of both space and time, since these are properties of the universe. So according to this notion, God exists before time began, exists during all moments in time, and would continue to exist if somehow the universe and time itself were to cease to exist.
See also the nature of God in monotheistic religions.
Afterlife is often believed to be eternal.
Physics and eternity
See also Steady-state universe
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eternity."
Synonyms: EternalSynonyms: aeonian (adj), ageless (adj), endless (adj), eonian (adj), everlasting (adj), interminable (adj), lasting (adj), perpetual (adj), unceasing (adj), unending (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery. |
Death | Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead. |
Deity | God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All-merciful, The All-holy. |
Heaven | Future state, eternal home, eternal reward. |
Hell | Hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies. |
Perpetuity | Adjective: perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever-flowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable. |
The Past | Phrase: time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes; fruit Ilium; hoc erat in more majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return"; tempi passati; "the eternal landscape of the past"; ultimus Romanorum; "what's past is prologue"; "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile". |
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Screenplays | Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I'm in major cellular rejuvenation mode, fast-tracking my way to eternal biological viability (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) The soul takes flight to the world that is eternal invisible (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar) Eternal Dragon, by your name, I summon you forth, Shenron (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) | |
Lyrics | Is this burning an eternal flame (Eternal Flame; performing artist: The Bangles) That he’s eternal fate has turn it's back on him (Twilight Zone; performing artist: Golden Earring) Collected by thoughts of eternal benevolence, hereby reject (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings) And my eternal flame (Enough of Me; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) Are eternal as a star (I Will Always Be With You; performing artist: Sheena Easton) | |
Clever | Thoughts lead to acts. Acts lead to habits. Habits lead to character, and our characters will determine our eternal destiny. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eternal Summer (1961) The Eternal Beauty Xi Shi (1960) Eternal Children (1959) The Eternal Question (1956) Eternal Prague (1940) | |
Song Titles | Eternal Flame (performing artist: The Bangles) 3 A.M. Eternal (performing artist: The KLF) | |
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 | Retired Master Sgt. Disk Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor, reads a memorial plaque engraved on the eternal flame in the Headquarters Pacific Air Forces "Courtyard of Heroes" 59 years after the attack. Fiske was a bugler assigned to a marine detach. |  | On the east side melodrama flaunts its eternal lure. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hope springs eternal. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The eternal feminine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Eternal vigilance is the price of national defense. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | France eternal!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nestled far up 'mong the eternal hills and snow, Silver Plume, Colo., U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Edward Morgan in Hall Caine's new play, The eternal city musical setting by Pietro Mascagni. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | WomanSpirit : I am the center; I am the point from which all directions start; I am the past and present united in eternal flight. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Hope springs eternal in the human breast. |
Arthur Schopenhauer. | Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. |
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza | We feel and know that we are eternal. |
Benedict Spinoza | God and all the attributes of God are eternal. |
John Dryden | Since heaven's eternal year is thine. |
Michelangelo | Genius is eternal patience. |
Thomas Jefferson | Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. |
William Blake | Energy is eternal delight. |
William Shakespeare | But thy eternal summer shall not fade. |
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John Locke | 1690 | No body, no power, can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change." "There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At those solemn words, (r)The Eternal Father in person could do nothing for you , she understood that her sentence was fixed |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | God is still the merciful Lord Who wishes not the eternal death of the sinner but rather that he be converted and live |
Sonnets | William Shakespeare | Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee |
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Economic History | Switzerland | In 1291, representatives of the three forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden signed the Eternal Alliance. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Under the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent Nation. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | It's just the tendency of government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. |
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| "Eternal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.14% of the time. "Eternal" is used about 854 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.14% | 821 | 8,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.74% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 854 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "eternal". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Adnah | N/A | Biblical | Eternal rest |
| Non | N/A | Biblical | Eternal |
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| Taiwan | Eternal Chemical Co Ltd |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "eternal": eternal City ♦ eternal damnation ♦ eternal death ♦ eternal flame ♦ eternal home ♦ eternal life ♦ eternal light ♦ eternal love ♦ eternal rest ♦ eternal reward ♦ eternal salvation ♦ eternal sleep ♦ eternal verities ♦ gone to one's eternal reward ♦ into the eternal secret ♦ life eternal ♦ swear eternal friendship ♦ the eternal ♦ the eternal city ♦ the eternal triangle ♦ yearning for things eternal. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "eternal": eternal-maternal. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "eternal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ewig (for ever, forever). (various references) | |
Albanian | i patundshëm (immovable, real, unshakeable), i përjetshëm (everlasting, lifelong, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, timeless, uncaused, undying, wakeless), i përhershëm (chronic, confirmed, constant, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, immutable, lasting, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, sempiternal, settled). (various references) | |
Arabic | مؤبد (endless, everlasting), سرمدي (immortal, indissoluble, perennial, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending), أبدي (endless, everlasting, incessant, indestructible, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вечен (constant, continual, endless, everlasting, imperishable, incessant, indissoluble, interminable, never ending, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unfading, unperishing), вековен (age-old, century-old, immemorial, primaeval, secular), безкраен (dateless, endless, everlasting, incessant, infinite, measureless, never ending, perpetual, spaceless, termless, timeless, unbounded, unending, unmeasured). (various references) | |
Chinese | 永 (forever), 永恆 , 永' (Ageless, Eternity, Everlasting, timeless, Timelessly). (various references) | |
Czech | vìèný (enduring, everlasting, immortal, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless), stálý (constant, durable, enduring, equable, fast, firm, indissoluble, invariable, perennial, permanent, protracted, regular, sessile, stable, standing, static, stationary, steady, unchangeable), neustálý (constant, continual, habitual, incessant, perpetual, steady, uninterrupted). (various references) | |
Dutch | eeuwig (everlasting, for ever, forever, perpetual). (various references) | |
Esperanto | eterna. (various references) | |
Faeroese | áhaldandi (all the time, ceaselessly, constant, continual, everlasting, permanent, perpetual, sustained). (various references) | |
Farsi | فناناپذیر (Immortal, Indestructible, Undying), پیوسته (Against, Allied, Always, Away, Ceaseless, Concomitant, Contiguous, Continual, Cursive, Forever, Incessant, Married, Proximate, Uninterrupted), مکرر (Bis, Continual, Eternity, Repetitious), همیشگی (Continual, Habitual, Perennial, Perpetual, Usual), لایزال (Undying), جاوید (Immortal), جاودانی (Eternity, Everlasting, Perennial, Perpetuity), ازلی (Everlasting), ابدی (Everlasting, Immortal, Perennial, Permanent, Perpetual, Uncreated), داءمی (Ceaseless, Constant, Continual, Perennial), بی پایان (Abyss, Eternity, Incessant, Inconclusive, Unbound, Unending, Unfinished). (various references) | |
Finnish | ikuinen (everlasting, permanent, perpetual), iki (ever-, over, primeval), iankaikkinen (everlasting), iäinen (everlasting). (various references) | |
French | perpétuel, éternel. (various references) | |
German | ewig (eternally, everlasting, forever, immortal, imperishably, interminably, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Greek | παντοτινός (always, perpetual), αιώνιοσ (agelong, everlasting, forever, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying), αιώνιος (perennial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עולמי (catholic, global, mundane, universal, wordly, world wide), צחי (deathless, everlasting, immortal, infinite, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Hungarian | örökkévaló (ageless, everlasting, holy one, never ending, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal), örökös (allodial, alodial, continual, everlasting, heir, hereditary, heritor, inheritor, perpetual, successor). (various references) | |
Icelandic | æfinlegur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lestari (abiding, everlasting, long-lasting), langgeng (imperishable), daim (enduring), baka (everlasting, lasting), abadi (abiding, enduring, everlasting, immortal, lasting, perennial, perpetual). (various references) | |
Irish | brách. (various references) | |
Italian | eterno (endless, eternally, everlasting, imperishable, never ending, timeless). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不朽 (everlasting, immortal, immortality, imperishable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ながの (long), ふきゅう (deterioration, diffusion, everlasting, immortal, immortality, imperishable, in no hurry, nonessential, rot, spread), ふへ" (constant, everlasting, fairness, immovable, immutable, impartiality, indestructible, neutrality, omnipresence, permanent, ubiquity, unchangeable, universality), かぎりない (endless, unlimited), エターナル , はてしがない (boundless, endless, fathomless). (various references) | |
Korean | 구한. (various references) | |
Malay | abadi. (various references) | |
Manx | er dy rieau (eternally, from everlasting, from time immemorial), bragh beayn (everlasting), braa, beayn (chronic, constant, durable, evergreen, firm, immortal, infinite, interminable, lifelong, longstanding, permanent, recurring, steady, sustained, timeless). (various references) | |
Norwegian | evig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eternalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | perpétuo (age-long, everlasting, lifelong, perennial, perpetual), eterno (ageless, everlasting, perdurable, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Romanian | etern (endless, everlasting, immortal, immortally, sempiternal, unending), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), veşnic (always, continual, continuous, endless, eternally, everlasting, inextinguishable, livelong, never-dying, perdurable, perennial, perennially, perpetual, perpetually, sempiternal, unceasing), nemuritor (deathless, immortal, imperishable, never-dying, undying). (various references) | |
Russian | вечный (ageless, agelong, everlasting, imperishable, perdurable, perennial, sempiternal, timeless, undying). (various references) | |
Scottish | suthainn (everlasting), sìorruidh, bith-bhuan. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | večit (everlasting, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal, unbegun), večan (everlasting, imperishable, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Spanish | eterno (ageless, everlasting, perpetual, timeless, undying). (various references) | |
Sranan | teygo. (various references) | |
Swedish | evinnerlig (everlasting), evig (age long, everlasting, for ever, never-ceasing, perdurable, perpetual, undying, unending). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่อยู่ชั่วนิรัน"ร์, ที่ไม่เปลี่ยนแปลง, ที่อยู่ชั่วนิรัน"ร์. (various references) | |
Turkish | ebedi (amaranthine, endless, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, never ending, perdurable, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, without end), sonsuz (abiding, abysmal, boundless, dateless, endless, illimitable, immeasurable, immortal, indefinite, infinite, interminable, limitless, never ending, no end, no end of, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending, without end), baki (enduring, permanent), ölmez (fadeless, immortal, undying, unfading), ölümsüz (deathless, endless, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, undying). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ebedilik (eternity), ebedi, цmьrlik (everlasting, for life, lifelong), baky. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вічний (ageless, dateless, everlasting, perdurable, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, unending), нескінченний (dateless, endless, everlasting, infinite, interminable, never ending, never-ceasing, undying, unending), незмінний (abiding, certain, changeless, firm, fixed, hardened, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariable, non-variant, one, permanent, same, unalterable, unexceptional, unfailing), непорушний (firm, hard and fast, immobile, immutable, indefeasible, sacred, standing, static, stygian). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vĩnh viễn (ageless, agelong, endless, eternally, everlasting, forever, indefeasible, perdurable, perennial, perpetual), t"n tại (going, subsistent), đời đời (ageless, agelong, deathless, eternally, everlasting, evermore, sempiternal). (various references) | |
Welsh | tragywydd (everlasting), tragwyddol (everlasting), bythol (everlasting, perpetual). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | da-ri. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aeternales, aeternus eternus, aeturnus, æternalis, æternus, inmortalem, inmortali, inmortalis, perennes, perennis, sempiterna. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ece. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 41 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tote erei kai toiV ex euwnumwn poreuesqe ap emou oi kathramenoi eiV to pur to aiwnion to htoimasmenon tw diabolw kai toiV aggeloiV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc dicet et his qui a sinistris erunt discedite a me maledicti in ignem aeternum qui paratus est diabolo et angelis eius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þanne sægð he þan þe beoð on hyswinstren healfe. Ge-witeð aweregede framme. on þæt eche fyr þe ys deofle & hys englenge-garewað. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne the kyng schal seie also to hem, that schulen be on his lefthalf, Departe fro me, ye cursid, in to euerlastynge fijr, that is maad redi to the deuel and hise aungels. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then shall the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on the lyfte hande: departe from me ye coursed into everlastinge fire which is prepared for the devyll and his angels. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then will he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels: |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 41 |
| Cebuano | Unya ang Hari magaingon kanila diha sa iyang wala, `Pahawa gikan kanako, kamong mga tinunglo, ngadto sa kalayong walay pagkatapos nga gitagana alang sa yawa ug sa iyang mga manolunda; |
| Croatian | "Zatim æe reæi i onima slijeva: 'Odlazite od mene, prokleti, u oganj vjeèni, pripravljen ðavlu i anðelima njegovim! |
| Danish | Da skal han også sige til dem ved den venstre Side: Går bort fra mig, I forbandede! til den evige Ild, som er beredt Djævelen og hans Engle. |
| Dutch | Dan zal Hij zeggen ook tot degenen, die ter linker hand zijn: Gaat weg van Mij, gij vervloekten, in het eeuwige vuur, hetwelk den duivel en zijn engelen bereid is. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän myös sanoo vasemmalla puolellaan oleville: `Menkää pois minun tyköäni, te kirotut, siihen iankaikkiseen tuleen, joka on valmistettu perkeleelle ja hänen enkeleillensä. |
| French | Ensuite il dira ceux qui seront sa gauche: Retirez-vous de moi, maudits; allez dans le feu éternel qui a été préparé pour le diable et pour ses anges. |
| German | Dann wird er auch sagen zu denen zur Linken: Gehet hin von mir, ihr Verfluchten, in das ewige Feuer, das bereitet ist dem Teufel und seinen Engeln! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Raja itu akan berkata kepada orang-orang di sebelah kiri-Nya, 'Pergilah dari sini, jahanam! Masuklah ke dalam api yang tidak bisa padam, yang sudah disediakan bagi Iblis dan malaikat-malaikatnya! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kemudian Raja itu pun akan bertitah kepada mereka itu yang di sebelah kiri-Nya: Undurlah dari hadapan-Ku, hai laknat, masuklah ke dalam api neraka yang kekal, yang disediakan bagi Iblis dan segala pesuruhnya. |
| Italian | Poi dir a quelli alla sua sinistra: Via, lontano da me, maledetti, nel fuoco eterno, preparato per il diavolo e per i suoi angeli. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eisht jir eh roosyn myrgeddin er y laue-chiare, Immee-jee voym, chloan churstey gys yn aile dy bragh farraghtyn, kiarit son y drogh-spyrryd as e ainleyn. |
| Maori | Ko reira ia ki atu ai ki te hunga i te taha ki maui, Mawehe atu i ahau, e te hunga ka oti nei te kanga, ki te ahi ka tonu, kua ka noa ake mo te rewera ratou ko ana anahera: |
| Norwegian | Da skal han også si til dem ved den venstre side: Gå bort fra mig, I forbannede, i den evige ild, som er beredt djevelen og hans engler! |
| Portuguese | Então dirá também aos que estiverem sua esquerda: Apartai- vos de mim, malditos, para o fogo eterno, preparado para o Diabo e seus anjos; |
| Rumanian | Apoi va zice celor dela stknga Lui: ,Duceyi-vq dela Mine, blestemayilor, kn focul cel vecinic, care a fost pregqtit diavolului wi kngerilor lui! |
| Russian | фПЗ"Б УЛБЦЕФ Й ФЕН, ЛПФПТЩЕ П МЕЧХА УФПТПОХ: Й"ЙФЕ ПФ нЕОС, ТПЛМСФЩЕ, Ч ПЗПОШ ЧЕЮОЩК, ХЗПФПЧБООЩК "ЙБЧПМХ Й БОЗЕМБН ЕЗП: |
| Shuar | `Wi Uunt Akupin asan menaaruini wajainian tiartatjai "Atumsha Yajá wetarum. Yajauchijiai yuminkramuitrume. Yus uunt iwianchi ni suntarijiai tuke kajinkiashtin jinium apeatniua nui wétatrume atumsha. |
| Spanish | Entonces dirá también a los de su izquierda: "Apartaos de mí, malditos, al fuego eterno preparado para el diablo y sus ángeles. |
| Swahili | "Kisha atawaambia wale walio upande wake wa kushoto, `Ondokeni mbele yangu enyi mliolaaniwa! Nendeni katika moto wa milele aliotayarishiwa Ibilisi na malaika wake. |
| Swedish | Därefter skall han ock säga till dem som stå på hans vänstra sida: 'Gån bort ifrån mig, I förbannade*, till den eviga elden, som är tillredd åt djävulen och hans änglar. |
| Uma | "Oti toe mpai', ku'uli' -raka to hi mali ki'ii-ku: `Malai-mokoi ngkai rei, koi' to natotowi Tuama-ku! Mesua' -mokoi hi rala apu to jela' ncuu, to raporodo ami' -miki Magau' Anudaa' pai' mala'eka to mpotuku' -i. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eternal": eternalize, eternalized, eternalizes, eternalizing, eternally, eternalness, eternalnesses, eternals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eternal": coeternal. (additional references) | |
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"Eternal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeterna, aeternae, aeternam, Ederney, enternal, etenalol, eternall, Eternel, Eternia, eterno, eternum, ethernal, etonal, eturnal, Evernia, tarnal, uteral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eternal" (pronounced i'ter"nul or ēter"nul) |
| 5 | -t er" n u l | external, fraternal, internal, maternal, nocturnal, paternal. |
| 4 | -er" n u l | infernal, Colonel, diurnal, journal, kernel, vernal. |
| 3 | -n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, exceptional, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
| 5 | -t er" n u l | external, fraternal, internal, maternal, nocturnal, paternal. |
| 4 | -er" n u l | infernal, Colonel, diurnal, journal, kernel, vernal. |
| 3 | -n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, exceptional, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enteral, teleran. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antler, elater, entera, lateen, leaner, learnt, neater, relate, relent, rental. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, anele, antre, arete, artel, eaten, eater, elate, enate, enter, laree, laten, later, leant, learn, ranee, ratel, relet, renal, rente, taler, telae, terne, treen. | |
-3 letters: alee, ante, earl, earn, elan, erne, etna, lane, late, lean, lear, leer, leet, lent, near, neat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: antlered, elaterin, entailer, eternals, external, lamenter, lanneret, lateener, leathern, levanter, regental, relearnt, relevant, rentable, telerans, treelawn, treenail. | |
+2 letters: alertness, alternate, calenture, celebrant, centraler, coeternal, crenulate, earnestly, elaterins, entailers, entangler, enterable, enterally, eternally, externals, fenestral, flattener, interlace, intermale, intervale, lamenters, lannerets, lateeners, letterman, levanters, nearliest, prevalent, ravelment, rectangle, reinflate, repellant, replanted, retinulae, tailender, tenurable, ternately, tervalent, tolerance, treelawns, treenails, unaltered, unrelated, waterline. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Derived from 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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