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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTEDILUVIAL

antediluvial  [ˌæntɪdɪˈluːvɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTEDILUVIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antediluvial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTEDILUVIAL


alluvial
əˈluːvɪəl
colluvial
kəˈluːvɪəl
convivial
kənˈvɪvɪəl
diluvial
daɪˈluːvɪəl
effluvial
ɪˈfluːvɪəl
eluvial
ɪˈluːvɪəl
exuvial
ɪɡˈzjuːvɪəl
fluvial
ˈfluːvɪəl
illuvial
ɪˈluːvɪəl
induvial
ɪnˈdjuːvɪəl
ingluvial
ɪnˈɡluːvɪəl
interfluvial
ˌɪntəˈfluːvɪəl
interpluvial
ˌɪntəˈpluːvɪəl
isopluvial
ˌaɪsəʊˈpluːvɪəl
jovial
ˈdʒəʊvɪəl
khedivial
kɪˈdiːvɪəl
pluvial
ˈpluːvɪəl
postdiluvial
ˌpəʊstdaɪˈluːvɪəl
trivial
ˈtrɪvɪəl
uveal
ˈjuːvɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTEDILUVIAL

antecede
antecedence
antecedent
antecedently
antecedents
antecessor
antechamber
antechapel
antechoir
antedate
antediluvially
antediluvian
antefix
antefixa
antefixal
antelope
antelucan
antemeridian
antemundane
antenatal

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTEDILUVIAL

commercial
editorial
especial
essential
facial
false gavial
financial
gavial
industrial
initial
lixivial
margravial
material
memorial
nontrivial
official
potential
quadrivial
residential
vial

Synonyms and antonyms of antediluvial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antediluvial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTEDILUVIAL

Find out the translation of antediluvial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antediluvial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antediluvial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

antediluvial
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antediluviano
570 millions of speakers

English

antediluvial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antediluvial
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

antediluvial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

antediluvial
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antediluviano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antediluvial
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antediluvial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antediluvial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

antediluvial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antediluvial
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antediluvial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antediluvial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antediluvial
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

antediluvial
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुवांशिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antediluvial
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antidiluviano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antediluvial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

antediluvial
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antediluvial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

antediluvial
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antediluvial
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antediluvial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antediluvial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antediluvial

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTEDILUVIAL»

The term «antediluvial» is used very little and occupies the 184.383 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTEDILUVIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antediluvial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antediluvial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antediluvial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTEDILUVIAL»

Discover the use of antediluvial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antediluvial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
American Journal of Science
The shell marle is adopted by most geologists as the dividing line between antediluvial and postdiluvial deposits. It is in layers, more or less regular, under and alternating with the shell marle, along the canal line throughout almost the whole ...
2
The American Journal of Science and Arts
Eaton, in a late Geological Prodromus, announces his intention to prove that " the detritus of New Jersey, embracing the marl, is antediluvial, or the genuine tertiary formation."* That it is ante- diluvial, strictly speaking, I have no doubt ; but I am ...
3
Paradoxes in Geology
36, 206) puts not one word about the religious implications of antediluvial man into the mouth of his hero during his enthusiastic subterranean lecture about the significance and the history of discovery of antediluvial man, but heavily ...
U. Briegel, Wen-Jiao Xiao, 2001
4
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the ...
But Christol argued that the Bize fauna was not truly “antediluvial” in character, because there was no trace of the usual extinct species (a single fragment of a bear's humerus could have come from the species still living in the Pyrenees, rather ...
Martin J. S. Rudwick, 2010
5
The American Journal of Improvements in the Useful Arts, and ...
The character of the soil depends on the character of the rock disintegrated. Query.-—Could not the antediluvial detritus,be divided into primitive and secondary, as proposed by Mr. Schoolcraft? See Index to the Geology of the Northern States.
6
War with the Newts
cried Fred. 'Daughter of Executive from Milwaukee films fossilreptiles.' ' Antediluvial Sauriapay homage tobeautyand youth', suggested Abe poetically. ' Yacht Gloria Pickford encounters unknown fauna,' advised the captain. Or 'The Mystery of ...
Karel Capek, 2014
7
Victorian Anthropology
Although the scripturalist catastrophism of the 18205 in principle allowed for antediluvial man, it did not allow for him in Europe, but only in the Asian “cradle of the race.” Iohn McEnery, a Catholic priest who dug at Kent's Hole in Devonshire,  ...
George Stocking, 1991
8
The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic ...
Annotation This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea.
Sumathi Ramaswamy, 2004
9
The progress of idolatry: The three ordeals.....Studley ...
Pritchard's Natural History of Animalcules, 1834. 4. The worship to his God he justly owed. Though not expressly mentioned in the very short account given by Moses of the antediluvial sera, it is most probable that idolatry as well as other sins ...
Sir Alexander Croke, 1841
10
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: ...
There are several creeks of this character, especially in the vicinity of the Pecos ; among which may be mentioned Painted Gallery, Nine-tailed Cat, Oak creek, and Fox-hole. ANTEDILUVIAL DUNES. Groups of hills and low ridges, from 80 to ...
United States. Dept. of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1857

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTEDILUVIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antediluvial is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Soccer Watch
At that, I guess the Aztex were lucky to get in the antediluvial game against Tulsa – postponed from Saturday night by lightning and played to a ... «Austin Chronicle, May 15»
2
Wind, rain and sand in your face
With its large wooden stabilisers jutting out on both sides, it looks like some antediluvial fish with giant gills. Further out, on a sand bank ... «The Nation, Sep 13»
3
History Channel's 'Bible' Producers Say Satan Not Meant to …
Given that races of giants and 700-year-old humans still existed during the antediluvial epochs, we conducted a great deal of historical ... «Evening Transcript, Mar 13»
4
Opry Mills Dining News: Claim Jumper and Dave & Busters
I was always a big fan of Shopryland in the antediluvial days. I worked close by and spent many a lunch break enjoying the dining options in ... «Nashville Scene, Jun 12»
5
The Not-So-Lost Ark of the Covenant
... on a tare for Ancient (Antediluvial) wisdom and knowledge and read ... I determined that Ethiopia was known in the Antediluvial World as the ... «Tadias Magazine, Dec 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Antediluvial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/antediluvial>. Apr 2024 ».
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