EGAVE

antediluvian

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
  2. adjective Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
  3. adjective Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
    Those ideas are antediluvian.
  4. adjective Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
  5. adjective Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
    Those ideas are antediluvian.
  6. noun A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
  7. noun A very old person.
  8. noun A very old person.

Similar words

antiquated old antediluvial archaic antediluvian patriarch antedeluvian postdiluvial prehistoric pre-abrahamic prehistorical

Often followed by

world patriarchs animals times period and age kings monsters

Word family

antediluvians

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