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dreaming track

dreaming track noun: a path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.

Noun

dreaming track (plural dreaming tracks)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.
    • The spiritual Dreaming track of the ceremony in which they were all involved, moved along the most isolated back roads, across the landscape, through almost every desert in the continent.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 124

Synonyms of dreaming track

Forms of dreaming track

pluraldreaming tracks

Questions about dreaming track

What does dreaming track mean?
Dreaming track means a path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.
What part of speech is dreaming track?
Dreaming track is a noun.
What is the plural of dreaming track?
The plural of dreaming track is dreaming tracks.

Words near dreaming track in the dictionary

  1. dreaming life
  2. dreaming lives
  3. dreaming on
  4. dreaming site
  5. dreaming sites
  6. dreaming track
  7. dreaming tracks
  8. dreaming up
  9. dreamingly
  10. dreamings
  11. dreamish

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