(~s)
1.
Someone or something that is ~ is famous and likely to be remembered for a long time.
...Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s ~ love story...
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An ~ is someone who is ~.
He called Moore ‘one of the ~s of soccer’.
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~ity
Some people want to achieve ~ity through their works.
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Someone or something that is ~ will live or last for ever and never die or be destroyed.
The pharaohs were considered gods and therefore ~.
? mortal
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An ~ is an ~ being.
...porcelain figurines of the Chinese ~s.
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~ity
The Greeks accepted belief in the ~ity of the soul.
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3.
If you refer to someone’s ~ words, you mean that what they said is well-known, and you are usually about to quote it.
...Roosevelt’s ~ words, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’
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