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prediluvian

prediluvian adjective: before the Flood; antediluvian.

Adjective

prediluvian (not comparable)

  1. Before the Flood; antediluvian.

Noun

prediluvian (plural prediluvians)

  1. One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.
    • When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.1786 November, The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787, volume I, Salisbury: […] B. C. Collins, and by S. Crowder, in London, published 1788, page 173
    • […] for the British have in 1,500 years progressed from an initial stage that was probably inferior to that of the prediluvians, and any shipbuilding that they learned from earlier races was a hindrance, not a help.2005, C. E. V. Craufurd, Treasure of Ophir: In Search of a Lost City, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2011, →ISBN, page 186

Forms of prediluvian

pluralprediluvians

Origin of prediluvian

From pre- + diluvian.

Words that rhyme with prediluvian

Questions about prediluvian

What does prediluvian mean?
Prediluvian means before the Flood; antediluvian.
What part of speech is prediluvian?
Prediluvian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prediluvian in the dictionary

  1. predilution
  2. predilutional
  3. predilutionally
  4. predilutions
  5. prediluvial
  6. prediluvian
  7. prediluvians
  8. predimension
  9. predimensions
  10. predimerize
  11. predimerized

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