How to use "antediluvian" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "antediluvian" in popular movie and book plots

  • Upon learning of an antediluvian manuscript detailing a strange rite alleged to return souls from the dead, Dracula seeks to revive his former lover's soul.  - Dracula: Origin
  • However, he is in a strong rivalry with the hospital's director, Dr Cruz, who is totally against the new surgical methods of Listerism introduced by Salvador, preferring to work in Salvador's eyes as 'an antediluvian sawbones cum sinister circus performer'.  - The Blue Afternoon
  • The narrator soon discovers that the Vril-ya are descendants of an antediluvian civilization called the Ana, who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels.  - Vril

Example sentences for "antediluvian" in interesting articles

Meaning of "antediluvian" in English

  • so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    Examples
    - antediluvian ideas
    - archaic laws
  • of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  • a very old person
  • any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

Meaning of "antediluvian" in Hindi

  • दक़यानुसी
  • पुराना ( Purana, puranaa)
  • प्रलयपूर्व ( Pralayapurv, pralayapoorv, pralayapurw)
  • प्राक्कालीन ( Prakkalin, praakkaaleen)

Synonyms of "antediluvian"

  • antiquated
  • antediluvial
  • antediluvian patriarch
  • archaic
  • ancient

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