Antediluvian Definition
antediluvian
adjective
- of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
noun
- any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- a very old person
Words that rhyme with antediluvian
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