postdiluvian

English

Etymology

post- + diluvian

Adjective

postdiluvian (comparative more postdiluvian, superlative most postdiluvian)

  1. postdiluvial

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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