FALL OF MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fall of Man mean? 

• FALL OF MAN (noun)
  The noun FALL OF MAN has 1 sense:

1. (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death

  Familiarity information: FALL OF MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL OF MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Fall of Man" is a kind of...):

landmark; turning point; watershed (an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)