Noachian
/nəʊˈeɪkɪən/adjective
Noachian is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to Noah or his time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-O-A-C-H-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Noachian mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to Noah or his time.
- 2
Pertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Noachian?
- UK /nəʊˈeɪkɪən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Noachian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Noachian?
Noachian appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Noachian come from?
From Noach (“variant of Noah”) + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).