Deluge  

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The Deluge (1840) by Francis Danby

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1. A great flood or rain.

   The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

2. An overwhelming amount of something.

   The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

3. The Deluge: The Biblical flood during the time of Noah.

Deluge can refer to:

• A large downpour of rain
• A flood

Mythical and prehistoric floods

• Flood myth, mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
• Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths
• Genesis flood narrative

Polish and Lithuanian history and culture

• Deluge (history), combined Swedish and Russians invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654-1667)
  • The Deluge (novel), Potop, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about it
    • The Deluge (film), based on the novel

Other

• Before The Deluge (song), a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
• Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough
• The Deluge (album), a 1986 album by Manilla Road
• Deluge (fine art photography), a museum exhibit by David LaChapelle
• Deluge (fireboat), a boat used in firefighting
• Deluge (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright
  • Deluge (film), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the novel
• The Deluge (novella), a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne
• The Deluge (novel), a 2007 novel by Mark Morris
• Deluge (software), a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK+
• Deluge (Transformers), several Transformers characters
• Deluge fire suppression systems, systems that have all sprinklers connected to the water piping system open
• Flame Deluge, a devastating nuclear war from Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Le Déluge, a 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns