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One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Egyptology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of being inundated; flooding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood, deluge, alluvion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geological phenomenon
Narrower terms: debacle, flash flood, flashflood, Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood
noun
an overwhelming number or amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood, deluge, torrent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
History
From Old French inundacion (“flood”) (French inondation), from Latin inundatio (“flood”), form of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (English inundate). By surface analysis, inundat(e) + -ion.
Across languages
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
