postdiluvian

American  

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

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.

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noun

1. a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.

postdiluvian British  

/ -daɪ-, ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən /

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the biblical Flood

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noun

1. a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood

Etymology

Origin of postdiluvian

1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def. )

Example Sentences

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

Encountering these creatures, we become like postdiluvian children, just beginning to make sense of a new world, exhilarated by its possibilities.

From New York Times

But upon the whole, the probability is strong that some other elevation, less lofty and steep, was the radiating point of the postdiluvian races of man and other animals.

From Project Gutenberg

Progress is continually being made in the decipherment and publication of these, and new facts are coming to light in consequence as to the religions of the early postdiluvian period.

From Project Gutenberg

A son of Heaven and not of man, Yima united the characteristics that Genesis divides between Adam and Noah, fathers both, the one of antediluvian, the other of postdiluvian humanity.

From Project Gutenberg