adam

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The first man in the Biblical creation story; a masculine given name.

• Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden.
• My friend Adam is coming over for dinner tonight.
• The theological debate centered on whether Adam possessed free will or was predetermined to disobey divine commandment.
• Medieval scholars spent considerable effort reconciling the chronology of Adam with emerging geological evidence of Earth's antiquity.
• Comparative mythology courses examine how the story of Adam parallels creation narratives from other ancient Near Eastern cultures.
• Renaissance artists depicted Adam with varying degrees of idealization, reflecting contemporary views on human perfection and original sin.

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In the phrase "not know someone from Adam": to not recognize or know someone at all.

• I wouldn't know him from Adam if I saw him on the street.
• She didn't know me from Adam when we first met.