altfränkisch — meaning in English
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English meaning
- antediluvian adj Belonging to the time before the great flood in the Bible, or, more broadly, before a similarly huge flood in another story.
Senses
altfränkisch is used for these senses in English:
- Frankish In or of the language of the Franks.
- Frankish The language of the Franks, an ancient West Germanic language, ancestral to Dutch.
- antediluvian Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
antediluvian — full definition
- 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.
- adj Extremely old; ancient.
- adj So out of date that it seems almost laughably old-fashioned.
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