dream-time
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Dreamtime.
Example Sentences
- "A group, whether stationary or migratory, in the myths of the Dream-Time ( the Alcheringa ) always consists of persons of the same totem, with occasional visitors of other totems."
- "From then on it became increasingly the custom among European and Aboriginal Australians to refer to that long past time as The Dreaming or The Dream-time, the Ancestors themselves as Dream-time Beings and the totems connected with them as Dreamings."
- "In the Dream-time of the beginning, godlike ancestors deposited the souls of all the living in "spirit wells" near several watering holes, or else the souls came from a great serpent underground, or down from the sky above."