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flood
English
Alternative forms
- floud (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English flod, from Old English fl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *fl?du, from Proto-Germanic *fl?duz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic ???????????????????????? (fl?dus).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?d, IPA(key): /fl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
flood (plural floods)
- A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- deluge
- diversion
- inundation
- torrent
Verb
flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
Antonyms
- (overflow): drain
Synonyms
- (overflow): overfill
- (cover): inundate
- (provide with large number): inundate, swamp, deluge
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
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Middle English
Noun
flood
- Alternative form of flod
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English flood.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fl?d??/
Noun
flood m (plural floods)
- (Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages
Related terms
- floodar
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antediluvian
English
Etymology
From ante- (“before”) +? Latin d?luvium (“flood”) +? -an; in reference to the story of Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6–9), an early episode in the Bible.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ant?d??lu?v??n/
Adjective
antediluvian (comparative more antediluvian, superlative most antediluvian)
- Ancient or antiquated.
- Synonyms: antediluvial, old, prehistoric; see also Thesaurus:old
- Extremely dated.
- Synonyms: dated, old-fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
- Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.
- Synonym: preflood
- (biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.
- Synonym: antediluvial
- Coordinate term: prelapsarian
Translations
Noun
antediluvian (plural antediluvians)
- One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
Related terms
- deluge
- diluvial
Further reading
- antediluvian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “antediluvian”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Romanian
Etymology
From French antédiluvien
Noun
antediluvian n (plural antediluvieni)
- antediluvian
Declension
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