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Dream-time

Dream-time is the alternative form of Dreamtime.

Meaning of Dreamtime

Proper noun

Dreamtime

  1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.
    • No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of...1980, Meanjin - Volume 39, page 402

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Questions about Dream-time

What is Dream-time the alternative form of?
Dream-time is the alternative form of Dreamtime.

Words near Dream-time in the dictionary

  1. dream worlds
  2. dream yoga
  3. dream'd
  4. dream-job
  5. dream-jobs
  6. Dream-time
  7. dream-world
  8. dream-worlds
  9. Dreama
  10. dreamable
  11. dreamboat

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