Definition of "Adam"

And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 3:20

Say Goddeſs, what enſu'd when Raphael, / The affable Arch-angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apoſtaſie,

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 40–43

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.

1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Workshop”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book first, page 3

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.

1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary

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,

1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Boys' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90

And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Corinthians 15:45

Second Adam from above,Reinstate us in thy love.

1739, Charles Wesley, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

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.

1936, HP Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark

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.

2001, Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation, page 164