Dictionary

1. (

• antediluvian ,
• antediluvian_patriarch

) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge ;

2. (

• ancient ,
• antediluvian

) a very old person ;

1. (

• antediluvian ,
• antediluvial

) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man" ;

2. (

• antediluvian ,
• antiquated ,
• archaic

) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" ;