Timeless Meaning
/tˈaɪmləs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjEternal.
adjNot affected by time; ageless.
Sentence Examples
This movie is indeed a timeless masterpiece.
Saint Augustine's "Confessions" tells a timeless tale of intellectual search ending in orthodoxy.
Jamin's perfectly symmetrical features give her an ethereal and timeless beauty.
CEFR Practice Quiz
For many artists, the beauty of the natural landscape is ____, never fading with the passing years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The music of Mozart has a ____ beauty that continues to inspire and delight people around the world today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English timeless From time + -less.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
(Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush
To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose."
— c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
"Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?"
— c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act V, scene 4:
"The lamp of day is quench’d beneath the deep,
And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep:
Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast
Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest."
— 1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For many artists, the beauty of the natural landscape is ____, never fading with the passing years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The music of Mozart has a ____ beauty that continues to inspire and delight people around the world today.