1) Adj 2) Age-old 3) Antediluvial 4) Antiquated 5) Archaic 6) As old as the hills 7) Hoary 8) Old
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1) Antediluvial 2) Antiquated 3) Christian mythology 4) Very old and outmoded
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The antediluvian (or pre-diluvian) period – meaning `before the deluge` – is the period referred to in the Bible between the Fall of man and the Deluge (flood) in the biblical cosmology. The narrative takes up chapters 1-6 (excluding the flood narrative) of Genesis. The term found its way into early geology and lingered in science until the .....
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• (n.) One who lived before the Deluge. • (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah`s time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.
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An interesting and humorous metaphorical description of something (for example a product or service or concept) that is obsolete, old-fashioned or primitive, or devised a long time ago. 'Ante' is Latin for 'before', and 'diluvian' is from Latin 'diluvium' meaning 'deluge', so the overall literal meaning is 'before the flood', being the biblical flo...
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An`te·di·lu'vi·an adjective Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an
antediluvian vehicle. --
noun One who lived before the Deluge.
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The term antediluvian refers to before the flood or deluge of Noah's time; relating to what happened before the deluge. In geology the term has been applied to organisms, traces of which are found in a fossil state in formations preceding the Diluvial, particularly to extinct animals such as the paleotherium, the mastodon, etc.
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adj] - of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood 2. [adj] - so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period 3. [n] - any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge 4. [n] - a very old (or old fashioned) person
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antediluvian 1. Of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood: 'Antediluvian man.' 2. Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge. 3. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period: 'A ramshackle antediluvian tenement.' 'Antediluvian ideas.' 'Archaic laws.' 4. A very old (or old fashioned) person. 5. Coined b...
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noun any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
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antediluvial adjective of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; `antediluvian man`
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of or belonging to the period before the Flood. Gen. 7, 8. · very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive: antediluvian ideas.
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