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postdiluvian

American  
[pohst-di-loo-vee-uhn] / ˌpoʊst dɪˈlu vi ən /

adjective

  1. existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.


noun

  1. a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.

postdiluvian British  
/ -daɪ-, ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən /

adjective

  1. existing or occurring after the biblical Flood

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of postdiluvian

1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def. )

Example Sentences

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The poem describes its own construction, as one remarkable detail after another is loaded into the “studio” to be preserved for postdiluvian use.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016

Consequently the earlier revelations of the antediluvian and postdiluvian times must have been the common property of all races, and must have been associated with whatever elements of natural religion they had.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

It certainly presents itself in early postdiluvian times as the first representative and teacher of art and material civilization.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

It would strike us forcibly to realize that what seems to us now to be a pillar of heaven, was the patriarch’s stepping-stone from the antediluvian into the postdiluvian world.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

It also shows that the idea of long creative periods as equivalents of the Mosaic days must, in the infancy of the postdiluvian world, have been very widely diffused.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William