Noachian
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Noach (“variant of Noah”) + -ian.
Adjective
editNoachian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Noah or his time. [from 17th c.]
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 13:
- The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed.
Alternative forms
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Noachis + -ian (after Etymology 1, above).
Adjective
editNoachian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters. [from 20th c.]
Noun
editNoachian (uncountable)
- The Noachian geological period. [from 20th c.]