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POSTDILUVIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything living after Noah's flood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing or occurring after Noah's flood

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Noachian deluge ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)

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