Noachian

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Noach (“variant of Noah”) +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Noachian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Noah or his time.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 47:
      At the next meeting he was back on a geological topic illustrated by maps, diagrams and specimens, and the following year he spoke on "The Noachian Deluge, universal with regard to man, but very restricted with regard to the earth"[.]
    • 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

Etymology 2

From Noachis +‎ -ian (after Etymology 1, above).

Adjective

Noachian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters.

Noun

Noachian (uncountable)

  1. The Noachian geological period.

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