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NOAH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)
Context examples:
Smith realised this tablet told the same story as Noah and the Ark in the Biblical book of Genesis.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
It was ’e that beat Noah James, the Guardsman, and was afterwards nearly killed by Jem Belcher, in the ’ollow of Wimbledon Common by Abbershaw’s gibbet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
