Definitions for dreamtime

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dreamtime dream·time

Spelling: [dreem-tahym]

IPA: /ˈdrimˌtaɪm/

Dreamtime is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in dreamtime (adeeimmrt).

Definitions for dreamtime

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.

Origin of dreamtime

First recorded in 1905-10; dream + time

Examples for dreamtime

Living in a sort of dreamtime characterizes experience now, as the Moon is void-of-course a few times this week.

The evidence of the Arunta legends as to the customs of the Alcheringa, or 'dreamtime,' is 'such stuff as dreams are made of.'