antediluvian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.

   “[P]erhaps ſome perſons might outlive Methuſelah; the Text intending onely the maſculine line of Seth, conduceable unto the Genealogy of our Saviour, and the antediluvian Chronology.”

2. sıfat Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.

   “Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.”

3. sıfat Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.

   “On the shore were the remains of an antediluvian forest with ugly black stumps showing, and further up an old stubby deserted lighthouse.”

4. sıfat Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.

   “Those ideas are antediluvian.”

5. isim A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
6. isim A very old person.

   “From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of the spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; […]”

7. isim A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.