Noah
WordNet
noun
(1) The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis
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Etymology 1
Biblical Noah or Noach (Hebrew: נוֹחַ or נֹחַ, Standard Nóaḥ Tiberian Nōªḥ; Arabic: نوح, (Nūḥ); "Rest").
Proper noun
- An Old Testament character who built an ark to save his family and a pair of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
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Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 7:7
- And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
- 1984 Erica Jong: Parachutes & Kisses. ISBN:0451138775 p.354:
- Easy to account for those trends - but what of post-Vietnam America and its generation of little Noahs? Were we expecting a flood momentarily?
Proper noun
- Noah.
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Proper noun
- , an English type spelling of Noa, currently popular.
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Proper noun
- , an English type spelling of Noa, currently popular.