IMMEMORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immemorial mean? 

• IMMEMORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective IMMEMORIAL has 1 sense:

1. long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history

  Familiarity information: IMMEMORIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEMORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history

Context example:

time immemorial

Similar:

old (of long duration; not new)

 Context examples 

The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one-third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new global atlas of light pollution produced by Italian and American scientists.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)