Adam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.əm/
ipa: /ˈæd.əm/
ipa: [ˈæɾm̩]
ipa: [ˈæɾəm]
ipa: /ˈɛd.əm/
rhymes: -ædəm
homophone: atom (t-flapping)
Forms: form: Adams
form: Adams
form: Adams
form: McAdam
form: McAdams
form: McCaw
form: MacAdam
form: MacAdams
form: MacCaw
Etymology: From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).
Senses: examples: text: And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:20:
text: Say Goddeſs, what enſu'd when Raphael, / The affable Arch-angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apoſtaſie,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 40–43:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
examples: text: In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, proninent, and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Workshop”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 3:
text: Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
ref: 1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary:
text: What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
ref: 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Boys' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90:
text: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Original sin or human frailty.
examples: text: And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:45:
text: Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
ref: 1739, Charles Wesley, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing:
glosses: Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
raw_tags: with second or last
examples: text: Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam-period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
ref: 1936, HP Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark:
text: McIntyre's best pieces, such as the fireplace in the Otis house, managed to convey both an opulent warmth and a restrained elegance, and compares favorably with the artistic saturnalia of an Adam fireplace.
ref: 2001, Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation, page 164:
glosses: Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A French surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A German surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: word: Adam and Eve
word: Adam and Steve
word: Adamesque
word: Adamhood
word: Adamian
word: Adamic
word: Adamical
word: Adamish
word: Adamite
word: Adamitism
word: Adamless
word: Adam-ondi-Ahman
word: Adam's ale
word: Adam's apple
word: Adam's Bridge
word: Adam's flannel
word: Adam's morsel
word: Adam's needle
word: Adam's Peak
word: Adamstown
word: Adam's wine
word: apple of Adam
word: as old as Adam
word: old as Adam
word: Atkin
word: Charlton Adam
word: Christmas Adam
word: co-Adamite
word: not know someone from Adam
word: Old Adam
word: pre-Adamite
word: pre-Adamitism
word: since Adam was a boy
Related terms: word: Acheson
word: Adams
word: Adamson
word: Adcock
word: Addams
word: Addey
word: Addie
word: Addis
word: Addison
word: Addy
word: Addyman
word: Ade
word: Ades
word: Adey
word: Adie
word: Adkin
word: Adkins
word: Adnett
word: Adnitt
word: Aicken
word: Aiken
word: Aikens
word: Aikin
word: Aikins
word: Aitchison
word: Aitken
word: Aitkens
word: Aitkin
word: Aitkins
word: Atcheson
word: Atkin
word: Atkins
word: Atkinson
word: Baddams
word: Hadcock
word: Haddy
word: Keddie
word: Keddy
word: Kiddie
word: Kiddy
word: Macadam
word: MacAdam
word: McAdams
word: McAdie
word: McCaw
word: McGaw
word: Megaw
word: Eve
word: Edom
word: Esau