immortalise

1. 1.

   be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

   “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”

   “We memorialized the Dead”

   Synonymscommemoratememorializememorialiseimmortalize

   Broaderremind

   Narrowermonumentalize
2. 2.

   make famous forever

   “This melody immortalized its composer”

   Synonymsimmortalizeeternizeeterniseeternalizeeternalise

   Broaderchange

Other forms of immortalise

past tense

immortalised·

present participle

immortalising·

third person

immortalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immortalise

What does immortalise mean?

immortalise means "be or provide a memorial to a person or an event". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immortalise?

immortalise has 4 syllables: im-mor-ta-lise. The stress falls on "mor".

What is another word for immortalise?

Close synonyms include commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immortalise a common word?

immortalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.