noah Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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

WordNet


No"ah noun
Etymology
Heb. N&omac;akh rest.
Definitions
  1. A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

Webster 1913