postdiluvian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ diluvian

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

postdiluvian (comparative more postdiluvian, superlative most postdiluvian)

  1. postdiluvial

Noun[edit]

postdiluvian (plural postdiluvians)

  1. One who lived after the Biblical Flood.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postdiluvian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French postdiluvien.

Adjective[edit]

postdiluvian m or n (feminine singular postdiluviană, masculine plural postdiluvieni, feminine and neuter plural postdiluviene)

  1. post-flood

Declension[edit]