mortal:
(plural: ‘mortals‘; opposite word in meaning ‘immortal’)
(any living being — people, animals and plants that die after living for some time);
a human being who is bound to die one day or the other, i.e. however old a person may grow, he/she must die,
mortals — living people with dead people
e.g.
Every man is a mortal, but God is immortal.
Every person who is born must die because humans, as other living things, are mortals.
Though all humans are mortals, some people are called ‘immortals’ not because they haven’t died, but because they were so good while they lived that they live in the memories of people long after they died!
For an article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here, for a political news article in which we see this word used to refer to ‘low profile politicians’, please click here and for a business article about how this word is used for rich people in real estate business, please click here.
Note: ‘Mortal’ as a noun is often found in the religious contexts, and ‘mortal’ is more commonly used in its adjective form qualifying a noun to mean ‘of or relating to death’ and ‘of or relating to very serious condition or result’, ‘deadly’, ‘very serious’, e.g. ‘a mortal wound’, ‘a mortal blow/strike’, ‘a mortal enemy’, etc. For an article that shows us how this word is used as an adjective with a noun (sin), please click here & for an article that talks of lobsters being mortal, please click here.
