Immemorial

Definition: Immemorial

Immemorial

Adjective

1. Long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; "time immemorial".

Date "immemorial" was first used: 1602. (references)

Synonym: Immemorial

Synonym: immemorial(ip) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impulse	Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor.
Oldness	Tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
	Immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.
The Past	Retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.
	Ntiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Immemorial

English words defined with "immemorial": Suit custom ♦ time immemorial, time out of mind. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Someone said she's existed from time immemorial and they just built the school around her. (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)
Movie/TV Titles	Time Immemorial (1991) From Time Immemorial (1991)
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Domain	Title
Books	From Time Immemorial (reference) Immemorial Silence (reference) In the Highlands Since Time Immemorial (reference) The Indigenous Voice in World Politics: Since Time Immemorial (Violence, Cooperation and Peace) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Time Immemorial (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
Euripides	That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	From time immemorial the special occupation of the inhabitants of M__ sur M__ had been the imitation of English jets and German black glass trinkets.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Immemorial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Immemorial" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.55%	68	40,606
Noun (proper)	1.45%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	69	N/A

Expressions using "immemorial": from immemorial time ♦ from time immemorial ♦ immemorial usage ♦ time immemorial. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "immemorial": immemorial-how.
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Language		Translations for "immemorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i stërlashtë, që s'mbahet mend. (various references)

Arabic		‏ممعن في القدم, ‏قديم (ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back, classic, classical, hoary, obsolete, of long standing, old, old fashioned, old hand, old time, old timer, old-established, oldster, once, out of date, outdated, outmoded, primitive, quondam, sometime, stale, staleness, stock, superannuate, time honored, time worn, very old), ‏سحيق (abysmal, downward). (various references)

Bulgarian		вековен (age-old, century-old, eternal, primaeval, secular), от памтивека, незапомнен. (various references)

Chinese		� 法追忆, 太古 . (various references)

Czech		prastarý (age-old, secular), pradávný. (various references)

Dutch		onheuglijk gebruik (custom for time immemorial). (various references)

Farsi		یادنیاوردنی , خیلی پیش , دیرین , بسیارقدیم . (various references)

Finnish		ikimuistoinen. (various references)

French		immémorial (from times immemorial), de toute éternité, de temps immémorial. (various references)

German		uralt (aged, age-old, ancient, hoary, very old, vintage). (various references)

Greek		αμνημόνευτοσ (not mentioned). (various references)

Hebrew		ק�"ום (aboriginal, advancement, ancient, prevention, primal, promotion). (various references)

Hungarian		idõtlen (timeless), időtlen (ageless, dateless, timeless), õsrégi (age-old, world old), évszázados (age long, secular), ősrégi (age-old, hoar, hoary, of great antiquity, primaeval), ősi (aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial, pristine). (various references)

Indonesian		sudah lama. (various references)

Italian		immemorabile. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		往古より (from ancient times, from times immemorial), 古来 (ancient, from time immemorial, time-honoured). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おう�"より (from ancient times, from times immemorial), �"らい (ancient, from time immemorial, time-honoured). (various references)

Manx		erskyn cooinaghtyn, anchooinaghtagh. (various references)

Norwegian		uminnelig. (various references)

Pig Latin		immemorialay.(various references)

Portuguese		imemorial (dateless), logo que (after, as soon as, once). (various references)

Romanian		imemorial (dateless), strãvechi (ancient, antique, dateless, hoary, primitive, time worn). (various references)

Russian		незапамятный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nezapamćen (unheard of), drevni (primeval, pristine). (various references)

Spanish		inmemorial. (various references)

Swedish		urgammal (ancient, antediluvian, extremly old). (various references)

Thai		เก่าแก่มาก (antediluvian, time-honored). (various references)

Turkish		hatırlanması zor (forgettable, slippery), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran). (various references)

Turkmen		ozaldan (from time immemorial), цсden (from many years ago, from time immemorial). (various references)

Ukranian		стародавній (hoary, of yore, old, old time, old world, venerable), незапам'ятний. (various references)

Vietnamese		xa xưa, thượng cổ. (various references)

Welsh		anhygof (not easily remembered). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "immemorial": immemorially. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Immemorial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imemorial, immemorably. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "immemorial" (pronounced i'mumô"rēul)
8	-m u m ô" r ē u l	memorial.
5	-ô" r ē u l	advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, janitorial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, senatorial, territorial, tutorial.
4	-r ē u l	actuarial, adversarial, aerial, antibacterial, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, endometrial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, immaterial, imperial, industrial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, mercurial, ministerial, secretarial, serial, terrestrial, venereal, vitriol.
3	-ē u l	adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-m-m-o-r"
	-2 letters: memorial.
	-3 letters: immoral, loamier, malmier, ramilie.
	-4 letters: limier, limmer, mailer, maimer, mammer, mammie, memoir, moiler, moirai, morale, oilier, remail.
	-5 letters: aimer, aioli, amole, ariel, email, lamer, lemma, maile, mamie, miler, milia, mimeo, mimer, moira, moire, molar, momma, morae, moral, morel, oiler, oriel, ramie, realm, reoil.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-m-m-o-r"
	+2 letters: immemorially.
	+3 letters: commercialism.
	+4 letters: commercialisms, semicommercial.
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