Usually means: First man in biblical tradition.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adam: Merriam-Webster
  2. Adam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Adam, Adam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Adam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Adam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adam, a'dam, adam: Wordnik
  7. Adam, adam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Adam: Wiktionary
  9. Adam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Adam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Adam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ADAM: Dictionary.com
  13. Adam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ADAM (protein), ADAM, A'dam, Adam (Bible), Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Adam (Northern Exposure), Adam (Rodin), Adam (TV film), Adam (TV movie), Adam (Torchwood), Adam (comic), Adam (disambiguation), Adam (given name), Adam (murder victim), Adam (musical), Adam (name), Adam (novel), Adam (surname), Adam (tree), Adam (unsolved Thames murder case), Adam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Adam: Rhymezone
  19. Adam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ADAM, Adam: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Adam, Adam: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. adam: FreeDictionary.org
  24. adam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Adam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Adam: Who2
  27. adam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  28. Adam: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADAM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Adam (Bible), Adam (Hebrew bible), Adam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adam: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Adam (methylenedioxymethamphetamine): Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Adam (Bible): Medical dictionary
  5. Adam: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Adam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ADAM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. adam: Idioms

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adam: Easton Bible
  2. Adam: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Adam, Adam, Adam: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adam, adam, adam, Adam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Adam: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. A.D.A.M, The Adam, adam, adam: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Adam)

▸ noun:  (Abrahamism, religion) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
▸ noun:  A male given name from Hebrew.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
▸ noun:  (with second or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
▸ noun:  Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
▸ noun:  An English surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun:  A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun:  A French surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun:  A German surname originating as a patronymic.

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Opposite:
eve, submissive, follower, yielding, compliant

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second, old, first, last, new, poor, young, original, unfallen, earthly, heavenly

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Similar:
ecstasy, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, Alex, Jamie, Andy, Adama, Steve, Caleb, Danny, more...

Opposite:
eve, submissive, follower, yielding, compliant

Phrases:
Adam Smith, Adam Bede, Robert Adam, old adam, second adam, Adam Mickiewicz, Adam Ferguson, john adam, william adam, Adam Malik, Adam Sedgwick, Adam Clarke, james adam, Adam Ulam, Adam Sandler, adam beck, adam marsh, more...

Adjectives:
second, old, first, last, new, poor, young, original, unfallen, earthly, heavenly

Colors:
    red,     green,     blue,     yellow,     black, more...



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