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ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antediluvian patriarch mean?
• ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH (noun)
The noun ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH has 1 sense:
1. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
Familiarity information: ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
antediluvian; antediluvian patriarch
Hypernyms ("antediluvian patriarch" is a kind of...):
patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)
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