time immemorial

1. 1.

   the distant past beyond memory

   Synonymstime out of mind

   Broaderpast

Questions about time immemorial

What does time immemorial mean?

time immemorial means "the distant past beyond memory".

What is another word for time immemorial?

Close synonyms include time out of mind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is time immemorial a common word?

time immemorial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.