1. The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
   "women have been blamed ever since the Fall of man";
   - Fall

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

Type of: cusp, event, landmark, turning point, watershed

Encyclopedia: Fall of man