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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 flood
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 flood
Familiarity information: POSTDILUVIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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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