Definition of biblical adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary



    (also Biblical) adjective
    BrE BrE//ˈbɪblɪkl//
    ; NAmE NAmE//ˈbɪblɪkl//
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  1. 1connected with the Bible; in the Bible biblical scholarship/times/scenes biblical stories/passages
  2. 2very great; on a large scale a thunderstorm of biblical proportions
  3. Idioms
    know somebody in the biblical sense
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    (humorous) to have had sex with somebody He had known her—but not in the biblical sense.
See the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary entry: biblical