TIME OUT OF MIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time out of mind mean? 

• TIME OUT OF MIND (noun)
  The noun TIME OUT OF MIND has 1 sense:

1. the distant past beyond memory

  Familiarity information: TIME OUT OF MIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OUT OF MIND (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 out of mind" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)