NOAH

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• NOAH (noun)
  The noun NOAH has 1 sense:

1. the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis

  Familiarity information: NOAH used as a noun is very rare.

• NOAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

 Context examples 

I am told that he had the best of it in a by-battle with Noah James, of Cheshire.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not so, say scientists Noah Fierer and Tess Brewer of the University of Colorado Boulder.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

I longed to show them a tearing American gallop, for they trotted solemnly up and down, in their scant habits and high hats, looking like the women in a toy Noah's Ark.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An early example of fake news has been found in the 3000-year-old Babylonian story of Noah and the Ark, which is widely believed to have inspired the Biblical tale.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

This cantle of wood is from the true cross, this other from Noah his ark, and the third is from the door-post of the temple of the wise King Solomon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team, which included researchers in the laboratories of Drs. Mingming Hao, Noah Dephoure and Dr. Lukas Dow at Weill Cornell Medicine, knew that adipsin had a role in stimulating beta cells to secrete insulin and theorized that the protein might be a potential therapy for type 2 diabetes.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and toiling into Chatham,—which, in that night's aspect, is a mere dream of chalk, and drawbridges, and mastless ships in a muddy river, roofed like Noah's arks,—crept, at last, upon a sort of grass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry was walking to and fro.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I’ve been telling people to go out at night on either Sunday or Monday night to see the supermoon, said Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

Every man on board seemed well content, and they must have been hard to please if they had been otherwise, for it is my belief there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“There’s no gamer man on the list, sir, than Noah James, the guardsman,” said Harrison.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)