time out of mind

1. 1.

   the distant past beyond memory

   Synonymstime immemorial

   Broaderpast

Questions about time out of mind

What does time out of mind mean?

time out of mind means "the distant past beyond memory".

What is another word for time out of mind?

Close synonyms include time immemorial. 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 out of mind a common word?

time out of mind 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.