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1. Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
   "antediluvian man"
   - antediluvial
    
2. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
   "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"
   - antiquated, archaic

1. Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
   - antediluvian patriarch
    
2. A very old person
   - ancient

Derived forms: antediluvians

See also: diluvial, old

Type of: golden ager, old person, oldster [N. Amer], patriarch, senior citizen

Encyclopedia: Antediluvian