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ANTEDILUVIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very old person

Synonyms:

ancient; antediluvian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("antediluvian" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

Synonyms:

antediluvian; antediluvian patriarch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("antediluvian" is a kind of...):

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Derivation:

antediluvial (of or relating to the period before the biblical flood)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Example:

archaic laws

Synonyms:

antediluvian; antiquated; archaic

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

old (of long duration; not new)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

Example:

antediluvian man

Synonyms:

antediluvial; antediluvian

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

diluvial (of or connected with a deluge)

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