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time immemorial

time immemorial noun: time that extends beyond memory or record.

Noun

time immemorial (usually uncountable, plural times immemorial)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Time that extends beyond memory or record.
    • from time immemorial
    • My home is in the North of Palestine on the other side of Jordan, beyond the Sea of Galilee. My family has dwelt there from time immemorial, but they always loved this city, and have a legend that they dwelt occasionally within its walls, even in the days when Titus from that hill looked down upon...1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XVII, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 177–178
  2. (UK, usually) The time before July 6, 1189, hence the time before the accession of Richard I.

time immemorial meaning in Tamil

time immemorial in Tamil

அனாதிகாலம், அடியனாதி, காலம் காலமாக, காலங்காலமாக

Examples of time immemorial in a sentence

  • She had worn from time immemorial an old blue satin dress, and a white crape shawl embroidered in colors; […]1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and...
  • The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.1888 [1848], Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, translation of Das Kommunistische Manifest by Karl...
  • This is a great tract of a hundred thousand acres, which from time immemorial has been a hunting preserve of the nobility.1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
  • That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St.1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:

Synonyms of time immemorial

Forms of time immemorial

pluraltimes immemorial

Questions about time immemorial

What does time immemorial mean?
Time immemorial means time that extends beyond memory or record.
What is time immemorial in Tamil?
Time immemorial in Tamil is அனாதிகாலம், அடியனாதி, காலம் காலமாக. See Time immemorial meaning in Tamil.
How do you use time immemorial in a sentence?
She had worn from time immemorial an old blue satin dress, and a white crape shawl embroidered in colors; […]
What part of speech is time immemorial?
Time immemorial is a noun.
What is the plural of time immemorial?
The plural of time immemorial is times immemorial.

Words near time immemorial in the dictionary

  1. time histories
  2. time history
  3. time hopping
  4. time horizon
  5. time horizons
  6. time immemorial
  7. time immoral
  8. time in
  9. time in the sun
  10. time in time again
  11. time inconsistency

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