Associations to the word «Antediluvian»
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Wiktionary
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. Ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. Supremely dated.
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. (biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
ANTEDILUVIAN, noun. One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
Dictionary definition
ANTEDILUVIAN, noun. Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge.
ANTEDILUVIAN, noun. A very old person.
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man".
ANTEDILUVIAN, adjective. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws".
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