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ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antediluvian patriarch mean? 

ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH (noun)
  The noun ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH has 1 sense:

1. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian delugeplay

  Familiarity information: ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

antediluvian; antediluvian patriarch

Hypernyms ("antediluvian patriarch" is a kind of...):

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)


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