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Definition of antediluvian:
Synonyms:
old, dateless, aging, new, hoary, age-old, antediluvial, out-of-date, old-time, immemorial, hoar, ageing, timeworn, archaic, early, antiquity, olden, start, antediluvian patriarch, antiquated, ancestor, old-fashioned.
- old (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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Of one point there can be little doubt- that bores existed in ancient as well as in modern times, though the deluge has unluckily swept away all traces of the antediluvian bore- a creature which analogy leads us to believe must have been of formidable power.
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The incident I propose to relate occurred in antediluvian times, when there were giants in the earth who lived a thousand years.
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In many parts of our coasts we find very striking and enormously large boulder- stones lying on the beach, perfectly isolated, and their edges rounded away like pebbles, as if they had been rolled on some antediluvian beach strewn with Titanic stones.