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Definitions: Deluge |
DelugeNoun1. An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse". 2. A heavy rain. 3. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. Verb1. Fill beyond capacity; "The water flooded the fields". 2. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind". 3. Charge someone with too many tasks. 4. Fill or cover completely, usually with water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deluge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Deluge the name given to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause of this judgment was the corruption and violence that filled the earth in the ninth generation from Adam. God in righteous indignation determined to purge the earth of the ungodly race. Amid a world of crime and guilt there was one household that continued faithful and true to God, the household of Noah. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations." At the command of God, Noah made an ark 300 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high. He slowly proceeded with this work during a period of one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3). At length the purpose of God began to be carried into effect. The following table exhibits the order of events as they occurred: In the six hundredth year of his life Noah is commanded by God to enter the ark, taking with him his wife, and his three sons with their wives (Gen. 7:1-10). The rain begins on the seventeenth day of the second month (Gen. 7:11-17). The rain ceases, the waters prevail, fifteen cubits upward (Gen. 7:18-24). The ark grounds on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, or one hundred and fifty days after the Deluge began (Gen. 8:1-4). Tops of the mountains visible on the first day of the tenth month (Gen. 8:5). Raven and dove sent out forty days after this (Gen. 8:6-9). Dove again sent out seven days afterwards; and in the evening she returns with an olive leaf in her mouth (Gen. 8:10, 11). Dove sent out the third time after an interval of other seven days, and returns no more (Gen. 8:12). The ground becomes dry on the first day of the first month of the new year (Gen. 8:13). Noah leaves the ark on the twenty-seventh day of the second month (Gen. 8:14-19). The historical truth of the narrative of the Flood is established by the references made to it by our Lord (Matt. 24:37; comp. Luke 17:26). Peter speaks of it also (1 Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5). In Isa. 54:9 the Flood is referred to as "the waters of Noah." The Biblical narrative clearly shows that so far as the human race was concerned the Deluge was universal; that it swept away all men living except Noah and his family, who were preserved in the ark; and that the present human race is descended from those who were thus preserved. Traditions of the Deluge are found among all the great divisions of the human family; and these traditions, taken as a whole, wonderfully agree with the Biblical narrative, and agree with it in such a way as to lead to the conclusion that the Biblical is the authentic narrative, of which all these traditions are more or less corrupted versions. The most remarkable of these traditions is that recorded on tablets prepared by order of Assur-bani-pal, the king of Assyria. These were, however, copies of older records which belonged to somewhere about B.C. 2000, and which formed part of the priestly library at Erech (q.v.), "the ineradicable remembrance of a real and terrible event." (See NOAH; CHALDEA.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: DelugeSynonyms: alluvion (n), cloudburst (n), downpour (n), inundation (n), pelter (n), soaker (n), torrent (n), waterspout (n), flood (v), flood out (v), inundate (v), overwhelm (v), submerge (v), swamp (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Redundancy | Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. |
River | Water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout. |
Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). | |
Selfishness | Phrase: apres nous le deluge. |
Water | Deluge. (water in motion); high water, flood tide. |
Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. | |
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Crosswords: Deluge |
| English words defined with "deluge": antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch ♦ Clysmian ♦ Deluged, Deluging, diluvial, Diluvialist, diluvian ♦ Ogygian ♦ Subundation ♦ The Flood. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deluge": After us, the Deluge, Ages ♦ Baal, Babel, tower of ♦ core deluge system ♦ Deluge, deluge collection pond, deluge water spray system, deluge water system, Deucalion ♦ engine spray ♦ flame deflector ♦ Ja nus ♦ Ogygian Deluge, Ox of the Deluge ♦ pad deluge ♦ skimmer basin ♦ underdeck spray ♦ wet emplacement. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deluge": Diluvium. (references) |
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Lyrics | Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup ("Don't Dream It's Over"; performing artist: Crowded House) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deluge (1933) A Matrimonial Deluge (1913) After the Deluge (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Republican deluge.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Barrage; deluge; flood; inundation; landslide; landslip; snowslide; torrent; building; intensify. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And again, in his speech to the parliament, 1609, he hath these words, The king binds himself by a double oath, to the observation of the fundamental laws of his kingdom; tacitly, as by being a king, and so bound to protect as well the people, as the laws of his kingdom; and expressly, by his oath at his coronation, so as every just king, in a settled kingdom, is bound to observe that paction made to his people, by his laws, in framing his government agreeable thereunto, according to that paction which God made with Noah after the deluge. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It also, in fact, has been swallowed up by a deluge. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the Plain of Shinar. From Babel comes our English word "babble." Under whatever name worshiped, Baal is the Sun-god. As Beelzebub he is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun's rays on the stagnant water. In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom. |
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| "Deluge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "Deluge" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.37% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.63% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deluge": apres nous le deluge ♦ core deluge system ♦ deluge water spray system ♦ the deluge. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "deluge": deluge-cursed. | |
Ending with "deluge": pre-deluge. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deluge | 45 |
deluge system | 13 |
deluge valve | 10 |
after deluge | 8 |
deluge photo | 6 |
apres deluge le moi | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "deluge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrebesh (cloud-burst, downpour, scat, spate, storm), rrëke (Beck, bourn, Bourne, burn, flood, flow, gush, rain, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), përmbytje (antediluvian, cataclysm, flood, flooding, flowing, inundation, overflow, spate, submergence, swelling), përmbyt (drown, flood, inundate, overflow, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), mbyt me pyetje, mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فيضان (alluvion, flood, flow, flux, high, high tide, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream), فاض (flood, flow, flow over, inundate, overfill, overflow, run over, spill over, stream), مطر غامر, غمر (douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), غرق (dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, swamp, wreck), طوفان (cataclysm, cataract, downfall, flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обсипвам (assail, beset, besiege, heap, intersperse, load, pepper, smother, sow, spot, strew, stud), обливам (lave, perfuse, pour over, sluice, slush), наводнявам (drown, float, flood, flow, inundate, swamp, water), пороен дъжд (pelting rain, sheeted rain), потоп (cataclysm, flood, inundation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 洪水 (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | potopa (cataclysm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sprinklingssystem for vandoversvømning (deluge water spray system), sprinkleranlaeg kan saettes i gang af en hvilken som helst af de elektriske branddetektorer ved hjaelp af en dertil indrettet,elektrisk betjent ventil (deluge systems can be actuated by any of the electrical fire detectors via an appropriate electrically operated valve), oversvoemmelsessystem for kernen (core deluge system, core flooding system, core reflooding system), medens det er almindeligt at beskytte helikopterdaekket med haandskumslukkere,er der mulighed for at faa installeret et fast anbragt skumsprinkleranlaeg paa selve daekomraadet (whilst it is usual to protect the helideck with hand-held foam branches it would be possible to have a fixed foam deluge system installed in th deck area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zondvloed (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | diluvo (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | vatnflóð (flood), syndflóð (flood), ódnarflóð (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غرق کردن (Drown, Flood), سیل (Flood, Overflow, Spate, Torrent), طوفان ایجادکردن , طوفان (Cataclysm, Flood, Gale, Hurricane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vedenpaisumus (flood, the Flood), tulva (flood, flooding, flow, influx, overflow, torrent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déléguer (delegate, depute, devolve), pluie diluvienne, inonder, inondation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überschwemmen (drown, flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, submerge, swamp, to deluge, to flood, to inundate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατακλύζω (bombard, flood, flush, inundate, overrun, overwhelm, pack, shower, swamp, whelm), κατακλυσμόσ (cataclysm, flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבול (down pour, downfall, flood, inundation, spate, torrent), ל"ציף (flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, swamp), שטפון (flood, inuandation, spate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | özönvíz (cataclysm, flood, splurge), áradat (flood, flow, flush, flux, freshet, gush, inundation, river, stream, tide, volley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | melimpahi (inundate), banjir (afloat, flood), air bah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | diluvio (diluvian, downpour, flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thooilley (cloudburst, downfall, downpour, effusion, flood, flow, inundation, onrush, spate, stream, water-spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | oversvømmelse (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elugeday dilúvio (flood, hair, rainstorm). (various references) diliviu, potop (cataclysm, cataract, cloud, debacle, destruction, flood, flux, freshet, ravage, sea, stack, stream), inundaţie (flood, freshet, wash), inunda (drown, float, flood, flow, flush, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, submerge, swamp), îneca (choke, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp). (various references) наводнять (infest, inundate, inundated, overrun), наводнение (flood, inundation, overflow, spate), затоплять (drown, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, scuttle, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), потоп (cataclysm, flood). (various references) tuil (a flood, flood). (various references) potop (flood), poplaviti (flood, inundate, overflow, wash, whelm), poplava (flood, inundation). (various references) diluvio (diluvium, downpour, flood, rainstorm, shower, soaker, soaking). (various references) syndaflod (flood), översvämning (debacle, flood, flooding, freshet, inundation, outflanking, overfeeding, overflow, spill, spillover). (various references) yağmuruna tutmak (besiege, bombard, rain, shower, volley forth, volley out), yağmur (barrage, flight, hail, hailstorm, pluvial, pluvious, rain, waterworks), tufan (cataclysm, cyclone, flood, flooding, round), su basmak (flood, inundate, overflow), su baskını (flash flood, flood, flooding, inundation, submersion), sel basmak (flood, inundate), sel (cataract, flood, flooding, inundation, spate, stream, torrent). (various references) наводняти (flood, overrun, pester), засипати (assail, bestrew, bombard, shower, stud, swamp), затоплювати (inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, sink, snow under, submerge, submerse), злива (cannonade, cloud-burst, downfall, drench, drencher, floodwaters, gush, hail, pour, scat, shower, soaker, spate), лавина (avalanche, billow), потік (avalanche, cataract, current, downpour, flood, flow, outpour, rain, river, spate, splurge, torrent), потоп (cataclysm), повінь (alluvion, flood, freshet, overflow). (various references) trận lụt lớn, sự tới tấp, sự d"n dập, đại h"ng thuỷ sự tr n ngập. (various references) dylif (flood, warp), dilyw (flood), cenllif (flood, torrent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cataclysmus. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | lavasse, lavache. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deluge": deluged, deluges. (additional references) | |
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"Deluge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dekuji, Delage, Delagi, Delagoa, Delange, delge, Delibe, deludge, deluga, delute, Deluze, dilge, diluge, dloge, Dlugy, dolge, eduge, Elruge, eluge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deluge" (pronounced de"lyuwj) |
| 3 | -y uw j | refuge. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l-u" | |
-1 letter: elude, glede, gleed, glued, ledge, luged. | |
-2 letters: dele, duel, edge, geed, geld, gled, glee, glue, gude, leud, lude, luge. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, due, dug, eel, eld, ged, gee, gel, gul, led, lee, leg, leu, lug. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l-u" | |
+1 letter: deluged, deluges, grueled, leagued, reglued. | |
+2 letters: becudgel, beguiled, begulfed, cudgeled, cudgeler, effulged, engulfed, gruelled, gulfweed. | |
+3 letters: becudgels, bugleweed, cudgelers, cudgelled, decalogue, englutted, epilogued, euglenoid, eulogised, eulogized, guideline, gulfweeds, idealogue, ideologue, leaguered, regulated, rejuggled, replunged, squilgeed, unfledged. | |
+4 letters: becudgeled, bludgeoned, bugleweeds, decalogues, deregulate, divulgence, euglenoids, gauntleted, guidelines, idealogues, ideologues, indulgence, underglaze, unenlarged. | |
+5 letters: becudgeling, becudgelled, beglamoured, beleaguered, delustering, deregulated, deregulates, divulgences, geniculated, genuflected, indulgences, lifeguarded, overindulge, regularized, reregulated, slaughtered, unbudgeable, undelegated, underglazes, unfeignedly, unregulated, upgradeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 75 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. ..- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01110101 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l u g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0075 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387178877371 |
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