Usually means: Before the biblical flood; ancient.
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  1. antediluvian: Merriam-Webster
  2. antediluvian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antediluvian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antediluvian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antediluvian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antediluvian, antediluvian: Wordnik
  7. antediluvian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antediluvian: Wiktionary
  9. antediluvian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antediluvian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antediluvian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. antediluvian: Dictionary.com
  13. antediluvian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Antediluvian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Antediluvian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. antediluvian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. antediluvian: Rhymezone
  18. Antediluvian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. antediluvian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. antediluvian: FreeDictionary.org
  21. antediluvian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. antediluvian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Antediluvian: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. antediluvian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. antediluvian: Merriam-Webster

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  1. antediluvian: Legal dictionary

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  1. antediluvian: Encyclopedia

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  1. antediluvian: A Word A Day
  2. antediluvian: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Antediluvian: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (biblical) 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.
adjective:  (by extension) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
adjective:  (figurative, hyperbolic, chiefly humorous)
adjective:  Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
adjective:  Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
noun:  (biblical) A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
noun:  (figurative, hyperbolic, chiefly humorous)
noun:  A very old person.
noun:  A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.

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