TIME IMMEMORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time immemorial mean? 

• TIME IMMEMORIAL (noun)
  The noun TIME IMMEMORIAL has 1 sense:

1. the distant past beyond memory

  Familiarity information: TIME IMMEMORIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME IMMEMORIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distant past beyond memory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

time immemorial; time out of mind

Hypernyms ("time immemorial" is a kind of...):

past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)

 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)