No ‧ ah /ˈnəʊə/ BrE AmE
in the Old Testament of the Bible, a man chosen by God to build an ↑ ark (=a large boat) so that he could save his family and two of every kind of animal that lived on the Earth from the terrible ↑ flood which covered the Earth. There are many songs and stories about Noah’s ark, which describe how the animals were chosen, and how they went into the ark ‘two by two’.