immemorial
/ɪ.məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
immemorial adjective: that is beyond memory; ancient.
Adjective
immemorial (not comparable)
- That is beyond memory; ancient.
- The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial.
- We will ride this morning to what we call the grove of Daphne. It is a real laurel grove. Some of the trees must be immemorial, and deserve to have been sacred, if once they were not so.1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XIV, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 148
immemorial meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
immemorial in Tamil
- தொல் பழமையான, நினைவிற்கு எட்டாத, மிகப் பழமையான
immemorial in Urdu
- immemorial
- ازحد قدیم azhad qadīm
immemorial in Bengali
- স্মৃতিাতীত, অতি প্রাচীন, অনাদিকাল থেকে
immemorial in Malayalam
- സ്മരണാതീത, അനാദിയായ, പുരാതനമായ
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- immemorial in Kannada
- ತುಂಬಾ ಹಿಂದಿನ, ನೆನಪಿನಾಚೆಯ, ಅನಾದಿ, ಪ್ರಾಚೀನ
- immemorial in Vietnamese
- xa xưa, thượng cổ
Examples of immemorial in a sentence
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing.1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
- Were it not that the fields are vast in extent, those proclaiming themselves part of State Farm’s, the scene might be immemorial.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World:
Origin of immemorial
From French immémorial. By surface analysis, im- + memorial.
Words formed from immemorial
Phrases with immemorial
Questions about immemorial
- What does immemorial mean?
- Immemorial means that is beyond memory; ancient.
- What is immemorial in Tamil?
- Immemorial in Tamil is தொல் பழமையான, நினைவிற்கு எட்டாத, மிகப் பழமையான. See Immemorial meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use immemorial in a sentence?
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing.
- What part of speech is immemorial?
- Immemorial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce immemorial?
- Immemorial is pronounced /ɪ.məˈmɔːɹi.əl/.
Words near immemorial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immemorial (page history and authors); immemorial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ازحد قدیم (Urdu) (page history and authors); Immemorial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immemorial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immemorial (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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