dreamtime

[dreem-tahym]

dream·time

[dreem-tahym]
noun
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.
Also called alcheringa, the dreaming.


Origin:
1905–10; dream + time
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Dreamtime is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Dreamtime (ˈdriːmtaɪm)
 
n
1.  alchera, Also called: alcheringa (in the mythology of Australian Aboriginal peoples) a mythical Golden Age of the past
2.  informal (Austral) any remote period, out of touch with the actualities of the present

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