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POSTDILUVIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postdiluvian mean? 

POSTDILUVIAN (noun)
  The noun POSTDILUVIAN has 1 sense:

1. anything living after Noah's floodplay

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


POSTDILUVIAN (adjective)
  The adjective POSTDILUVIAN has 1 sense:

1. existing or occurring after Noah's floodplay

  Familiarity information: POSTDILUVIAN used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POSTDILUVIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything living after Noah's flood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("postdiluvian" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)


POSTDILUVIAN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing or occurring after Noah's flood

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Noachian deluge ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)


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