antediluvian是什么意思音标:英 [ˌæntɪdɪˈlu:vɪən]美 [ˌæntɪdəˈluvɪən]

a. 大洪水前的, 陈旧的, 过时的
n. 大洪水以前的人, 老迈的人

n. any of the early patriarchs who pved prior to the Noachian deluge
a. of or relating to the period before the bibpcal flood
s. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earper period