CAIN

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• CAIN (noun)
  The noun CAIN has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God

  Familiarity information: CAIN used as a noun is very rare.

• CAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

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)

 Context examples 

He's as like Cain before he was grown up, as he can be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already. I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)