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antediluvian
a. 大洪水前的,上古的,古风的
n. 大洪水以前的人,很老的人,老古董 大洪水前的,上古的,古风的大洪水以前的人,很老的人,老古董 antediluvian adj 1: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; " antediluvian man" [ synonym: { antediluvian}, { antediluvial}] 2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; " a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; " antediluvian ideas"; " archaic laws" [ synonym: { antediluvian}, { antiquated}, { archaic}] n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge [ synonym: { antediluvian}, { antediluvian patriarch}] 2: a very old person [ synonym: { ancient}, { antediluvian}] antediluvian \ an` te* di* lu" vi* an\ ([ a^] n` t[- e]* d[ i^]* l[= u]" v[ i^]* an), a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah' s time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge. [ 1913 Webster] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " antediluvian": Bronze Age man, Gothic, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Methuselah, Stone Age man, Victorian, aboriginal, aborigine, age- old, aged, ancient, ante- bellum, antemundane, anthropoid, antiquated, antique, ape- man, archaic, autochthon, back number, before the Fall, before the Flood, before the war, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, classical, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fossil man, fossilized, fud, fuddy- duddy, granny, grown old, has- been, hoary, hominid, humanoid, longhair, man of old, matriarch, medieval, mid- Victorian, missing link, mossback, of other times, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old- timer, old- world, patriarch, petrified, pop, pops, pre- Aryan, pre- Christian, pre- Renaissance, pre- Roman, preadamite, preclassical, precultural, prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelapsarian, premillenarian, premundane, prerevolutionary, preromantic, prewar, primate, primitive, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, stick- in- the- mud, superannuated, timeworn, traditionalist, troglodyte, venerable
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