Antediluvian

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Extremely old and antiquated. See Synonyms at old.
  • adj. Bible Occurring or belonging to the era before the Flood.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
  • adj. Supremely dated.
  • adj. Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge
  • adj. Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
  • n. One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Existing before the flood (the Noachian deluge) recorded in Genesis; relating to the times or events before the Noachian deluge: as, the antediluvian patriarchs: by extension, applied to the time preceding any great flood or inundation, as that which is said to have occurred in China in the time of Yao, 2298 b. c.
  • Belonging to very ancient times; antiquated; primitive; rude; simple: as, antediluvian ideas.
  • n. One who lived before the deluge.
  • n. Hence, humorously
  • n. One who is very old or very antiquated in manners or notions; an old fogy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a very old person
  • adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  • n. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
  • adj. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
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