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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 rooms
  2. dream sequence
  3. dream sequences
  4. dream team
  5. dream teams
  6. Dream Time
  7. dream trance
  8. dream true
  9. dream up
  10. dream world
  11. dream worlds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dream Time (page history and authors); Dreamtime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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