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antediluvian
adjective
noun
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
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ˌantɪdɪˈluːvɪən
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adjective
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
“A ramshackle antediluvian tenement”
adjective
Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
“Antediluvian man”
noun
A very old person
noun
Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
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A ramshackle antediluvian tenement
Antediluvian ideas
Archaic laws
Antediluvian man
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