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THE FLOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("the Flood" is a kind of...):
alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land)
Domain category:
Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)
Context examples:
Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He selected from the vast mass of detail with an artist's touch, drawing pictures of life that glowed and burned with light and color, injecting movement so that his listeners surged along with him on the flood of rough eloquence, enthusiasm, and power.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Although there were more gods involved than in Genesis, and the Babylonian hero had a different name, the two stories were recognisably the same, with animals taken aboard the ark before the flood and birds sent out at the end once the rain stopped.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
He had to eat as he had never eaten before, to handle strange tools, to glance surreptitiously about and learn how to accomplish each new thing, to receive the flood of impressions that was pouring in upon him and being mentally annotated and classified; to be conscious of a yearning for her that perturbed him in the form of a dull, aching restlessness; to feel the prod of desire to win to the walk in life whereon she trod, and to have his mind ever and again straying off in speculation and vague plans of how to reach to her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
