Usually means: Biblical figure, first son, murderer.
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  1. Cain: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cain, cain: Wordnik
  7. Cain, cain: Wiktionary
  8. Cain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Cain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cain: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cain, cain: Dictionary.com
  12. Cain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cain (Battlestar Galactica), Cain (band), Cain (disambiguation), Cain (novel), Cain (play), Cain (software), Cain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cain: Rhymezone
  15. CAIN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. cain: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Cain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. cain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. Cain: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cain-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cain: Sound Alike Words

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. CAIN: Acronym Finder
  3. Cain: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cain: Easton Bible
  2. Cain: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Cain, Cain: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cain: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cain)

▸ noun:  (biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel.
▸ noun:  (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of kain [(Scots law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.]

Similar:
Abel, Kayin, Adam, Enos, Adam-and-Eve, Naamah, Adah, adamite, Caiden, Azazel, more...

Opposite:
Abel

Types:
Abel, Abelard, Cainard, Cainardus, more...

Phrases:
Raising Cain, tubal cain, raise Cain, raised cain, Herman Cain, more...

Adjectives:
tubal, bare, wicked, little, old, biblical, second, murderous, young, tuval, poor

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Similar:
Abel, Kayin, Adam, Enos, Adam-and-Eve, Naamah, Adah, adamite, Caiden, Azazel, more...

Opposite:
Abel

Types:
Abel, Abelard, Cainard, Cainardus, more...

Phrases:
Raising Cain, tubal cain, raise Cain, raised cain, Herman Cain, mark of Cain, james m cain, Cain and Abel, James M. Cain, to raise cain, cain complex, cain james m, raises cain, the mark of cain, Earl Cain, more...

Adjectives:
tubal, bare, wicked, little, old, biblical, second, murderous, young, tuval, poor

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark red,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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