Meaning of ANTEDILUVIAN
| Pronunciation: | | `anteedi'looveeun
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- [n] a very old (or old fashioned) person
- [n] any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
- [adj] so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
- [adj] of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood; "Antediluvian man"
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| | Synonyms: | | antediluvial, antediluvian patriarch, antiquated, archaic, old |
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| | See Also: | | diluvial, diluvian, old person, oldster, patriarch, senior citizen | |
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| | Definition: | | \An`te*di*lu"vi*an\, a.
Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's
time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.
One who lived before the Deluge.
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| | Related Terms: | | aboriginal, aborigine, aged, age-old, ancient, ante-bellum, antemundane, anthropoid, antiquated, antique, ape-man, archaic, autochthon, back number, before the Fall, before the Flood, before the war, Bronze Age man, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, classical, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fossil man, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, Gothic, granny, grown old, has-been, hoary, hominid, Hominidae, humanoid, Iron Age man, longhair, man of old, matriarch, medieval, Methuselah, mid-Victorian, missing link, mossback, of other times, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, old-world, patriarch, petrified, pop, pops, preadamite, pre-Aryan, pre-Christian, preclassical, precultural, prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelapsarian, premillenarian, premundane, pre-Renaissance, prerevolutionary, pre-Roman, preromantic, prewar, primate, primitive, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud, Stone Age man, superannuated, timeworn, traditionalist, troglodyte, venerable, Victorian |
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