dawn of time
When everything started
The dawn of time is the earliest imaginable moment—the beginning of existence itself.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in since the dawn of time or from the dawn of time, used hyperbolically to emphasize that something has been true for as long as anyone can remember: People have been telling stories since the dawn of time.
- in the beginningAt the start
- originsPoints where things start
- beginningInitial stage of something
- genesisPoint of creation
- creation mythsTraditional origin-of-everything tales
primordial chaos · inception · first light · primordial soup · cosmic egg · birth · first breath · ancient history · eternity · commencement · Big Bang · antiquity · emergence · formation · outset · inauguration · infancy · Eden
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- Prehistoric Timesprehistory, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, ice age
- The Pastpast, ancient, old, formerly, previously
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
dawn of timeend of days
Prophesied final catastrophe
doomsday · end of the world · Armageddon · judgment day · apocalypse
dawn of timemodern times
The contemporary era
the here and now · contemporary era · today · contemporary times · now
dawn, dawns, dawned, dawning, time, times, timed, timing, timer