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Antediluvian
WordNet
adjective
(1) So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
"A ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
"Antediluvian ideas"
"Archaic laws"
(2) Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
"Antediluvian man"
noun
(3) A very old person
(4) Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge