vorsintflutlich — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ancient adj Belonging to a very distant, long-past time, especially before the Middle Ages.
- antediluvian adj Belonging to the time before the great flood in the Bible, or, more broadly, before a similarly huge flood in another story.
- Neolithic adj Relating to the New Stone Age, the late prehistoric period marked by the rise of farming and polished stone tools.
Senses
vorsintflutlich is used for these senses in English:
- ancient Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- antediluvian Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
- neolithic (informal) hopelessly outdated
ancient — full definition
- adj Belonging to a very distant, long-past time, especially before the Middle Ages.
- adj Very old.
- noun A person who lived in the distant past, especially in classical Greece or Rome.
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- adj So out of date that it seems almost laughably old-fashioned.
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