antediluvian patriarch

1. 1.

   any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

   Synonymsantediluvian

   Broaderpatriarch

Questions about antediluvian patriarch

What does antediluvian patriarch mean?

antediluvian patriarch means "any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge".

What is another word for antediluvian patriarch?

Close synonyms include antediluvian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antediluvian patriarch a common word?

antediluvian patriarch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.