Definitions of antediluvian:

  • noun:   a very old (or old fashioned) person
  • noun:   any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
  • adjective:   so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    Example: "A ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
  • adjective:   of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood
    Example: "Antediluvian man"