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Meaning of antediluvian

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  antediluvian
      adj 1: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
             "antediluvian man" [syn: {antediluvian}, {antediluvial}]
      2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
         "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas";
         "archaic laws" [syn: {antediluvian}, {antiquated}, {archaic}]
      n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian
           deluge [syn: {antediluvian}, {antediluvian patriarch}]
      2: a very old person [syn: {ancient}, {antediluvian}]

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