postdiluvian

[ pohst-di-loo-vee-uhn ]

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.

noun

1. a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.

postdiluvian

/ -daɪ-; ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən /

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the biblical Flood

noun

1. a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdiluvian¹

1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdiluvian¹

C17: from post- + diluvian, from Latin diluvium deluge, flood

Example Sentences

The poem describes its own construction, as one remarkable detail after another is loaded into the “studio” to be preserved for postdiluvian use.

From The New Yorker

Encountering these creatures, we become like postdiluvian children, just beginning to make sense of a new world, exhilarated by its possibilities.

From New York Times

But upon the whole, the probability is strong that some other elevation, less lofty and steep, was the radiating point of the postdiluvian races of man and other animals.

From Project Gutenberg

Consequently the earlier revelations of the antediluvian and postdiluvian times must have been the common property of all races, and must have been associated with whatever elements of natural religion they had.

From Project Gutenberg

A son of Heaven and not of man, Yima united the characteristics that Genesis divides between Adam and Noah, fathers both, the one of antediluvian, the other of postdiluvian humanity.

From Project Gutenberg