Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An indulgence or a pleasure that is illegal or is believed to be immoral.
Wiktionary
- n. The fruit forbidden to Adam.
- n. idiomatic Illicit pleasure.
- n. Something desired that cannot be had.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.
WordNet 3.0
- n. originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)
Etymologies
- With reference to Genesis 2:17: ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’ (KJV) (Wiktionary)
- From the story of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, forbidden to Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16-3:19. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“These Manitobans would die rather than acknowledge that their province has been slighted by Pomona, and yet apples are as much a forbidden fruit here as in Eden.”
“I am always an assiduous and a patient teacher, and very little time is left to me to write PROFESSIONALLY, seeing that I cannot keep awake after midnight and that I want to spend all my evening with my family; but this lack of time stimulates me and makes me find a true pleasure in digging away; it is like a forbidden fruit that I taste in secret.”
“The girl who is over-ready for her lover's first kiss, has tasted the forbidden fruit already, or has waited over-long for it.”
“Says Charles Hodge, "In the day in which Adam ate the forbidden fruit he did die.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forbidden fruit’.
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RELI - biblical phrases
a bird in the han..., a broken heart, a cross to bear, a drop in the bucket, a fly in the oint..., a graven image, a house divided a..., a labour of love, a law unto themse..., a leopard cannot ..., a man after his o..., a multitude of sins and 118 more...
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RELI - Biblical collocations
Biblical collocations and collocations relating to the Bible. This is just a stud. The topic is enermous.
Acts of the Apostles, Adam and Eve, book oath, carob bean tree, epistle lesson, felix culpa, festival of lights, ficus sycomorus, fig leaf, Geneva Bible, Gog and Magog, golden rule and 324 more...
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• Fruitie
Fruit-related metaphors.
The list name is a tribute to gangerh's Numberie.pear shaped, upset the applecart, apple-pie order, apple-polisher, grapeshot, cut the melon, plum tired, through the grape..., nuttier than a pe..., apple-of-my-eye, just peachy, cracked the nut and 41 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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phrases (2 to 3 words)
Found Phrases I like. 2 or 3 words.
the majority of these will be placed into more categorically specific lists.
goto phrases (more than 3 words)
( _mark...catastrophic failure, gut-wrenching, programming paradigm, supermassive blac..., tangent space, renewable energy, design pattern, deceptively awesome, allegorical super..., emotional truth, ghosts of departe..., inflection point and 958 more...
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To Eat, Or Not To Eat?
pie-dog, piebald, pie chart, piece of cake, piecemeal, nut and bolt, wingnut, beebread, toe jam, butterfly, Luxemburger, pi and 22 more...
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