No·ah

(nō′ə)

In the Bible, the patriarch who was chosen by God to build an ark, in which he, his family, and a pair of every animal were saved from the Flood.

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noah

(ˈnəʊə)

(Animals) Austral a shark

[from Australian rhyming slang Noah's Ark]

Noah

(ˈnəʊə)

(Bible) Old Testament a Hebrew patriarch, who saved himself, his family, and specimens of each species of animal and bird from the Flood by building a ship (Noah's Ark) in which they all survived (Genesis 6–8)

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No•ah

(ˈnoʊ ə)

n.

the patriarch who built a ship (No′ah's Ark′) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.

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Noah - the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis

Translations

Noe

Noah

NoachNoah

Noé

Nooa

Noé

Noé

Nói

Noè

Noe

NoachNoë

NoaNoah

Noé

NoaNoahNoak

Nuh

Noah

[ˈnəʊə] N → Noé
Noah's ark → arca f de Noé

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Noah

n → Noah m

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Noah

[ˈnəʊə] n → Noè m
Noah's ark → l'arca di Noè

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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'I'm Mister Noah Claypole,' said the charity-boy, 'and you're under me.

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In Noah's flood, he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.

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It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard.

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Noa Noah was her head sailor, who had been boatswain of the Miele.

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One afternoon in the week before Christmas, I came upon Lena and her funny, square-headed little brother Chris, standing before the drugstore, gazing in at the wax dolls and blocks and Noah's Arks arranged in the frosty show window.

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But, on the way down, they had stopped at a toy-shop, and had bought that noble charger, a description of whose points and trappings had on the last occasion conciliated the then worldly- minded orphan, and also a Noah's ark, and also a yellow bird with an artificial voice in him, and also a military doll so well dressed that if he had only been of life-size his brother-officers in the Guards might never have found him out.

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There is his home; there lies his business, which a noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.

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The list of plays thus presented commonly included: The Fall of Lucifer; the Creation of the World and the Fall of Adam; Noah and the Flood; Abraham and Isaac and the promise of Christ's coming; a Procession of the Prophets, also foretelling Christ; the main events of the Gospel story, with some additions from Christian tradition; and the Day of Judgment.

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Lynde was awful mad the other day because I asked her if she was alive in Noah's time.

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Populace-hodgepodge: therein is everything mixed with everything, saint and swindler, gentleman and Jew, and every beast out of Noah's ark.

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Him a facetious, vacationing architect's clerk dubbed Noah, and so greeted him.

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Tom had two abettors, in the shape of a couple of old boys, Noah and Benjamin by name, who defended him from Charity, and expended much time upon his education.

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