antediluvian in Portuguese
antediluvian in Portuguese is antediluviano — antediluvian means belonging to the time before the great flood in the Bible, or, more broadly, before a similarly huge flood in another story.
antediluvian in Portuguese
antediluviano
What does "antediluvian" mean?
- adj Belonging to the time before the great flood in the Bible, or, more broadly, before a similarly huge flood in another story.
- adj Describing plants or animals that died out long ago; prehistoric.
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adj Extremely old; ancient.
"The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture."
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adj So out of date that it seems almost laughably old-fashioned.
"Those ideas are antediluvian."
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antediluvian in a sentence
- The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture.
- Those ideas are antediluvian.
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What is "antediluvian" in Portuguese?
"antediluvian" in Portuguese is antediluviano. antediluvian means: Belonging to the time before the great flood in the Bible, or, more broadly, before a similarly huge flood in another story.
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