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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
- Example: "antediluvian man"
[syn: antediluvian, antediluvial]

2. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
- Example: "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
- Example: "antediluvian ideas"
- Example: "archaic laws"
[syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

antediluvian \an`te*di*lu"vi*an\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[i^]*l[=u]"v[i^]*an), a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "antediluvian": Bronze Age man, Gothic, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Methuselah, Stone Age man, Victorian, aboriginal, aborigine, age-old, aged, ancient, ante-bellum, antemundane, anthropoid, antiquated, antique, ape-man, archaic, autochthon, back number, before the Fall, before the Flood, before the war, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, classical, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fossil man, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, grown old, has-been, hoary, hominid, humanoid, longhair, man of old, matriarch, medieval, mid-Victorian, missing link, mossback, of other times, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, old-world, patriarch, petrified, pop, pops, pre-Aryan, pre-Christian, pre-Renaissance, pre-Roman, preadamite, preclassical, precultural, prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelapsarian, premillenarian, premundane, prerevolutionary, preromantic, prewar, primate, primitive, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud, superannuated, timeworn, traditionalist, troglodyte, venerable