WordNet
n. the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve
Wikipedia
Tree of Knowledge may refer to:
The Tree of Knowledge was a tree in Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia, which was regarded as the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). This was because the town was the headquarters of the 1891 Australian shearers' strike where policy and decisions were made. It was a 200-year-old Corymbia aparrerinja ghost gum.
Tree of Knowledge is a 1981 Danish coming-of-age drama directed by Nils Malmros. The film details the lives of 17 teenage schoolmates in 1950s Denmark. Shooting on location at the high school which he had attended, Malmros took two years to film the action, so the cast members reflected the real life physical and emotional development of their characters. Film Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "The Tree of Knowledge is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty... a creative act of memory about exactly what it was like to be 13 in 1953." Despite critical praise, Tree of Knowledge received only two awards: the Danish Film Critics Bodil Award for Jan Weincke's cinematography and the Audience Award at the Lübeck Nordic Film Festival. Tree of Knowledge is one of the top 100 Danish films listed by the Danish Film Institute and is one of ten films listed in the cultural canon of Denmark by the Danish Ministry of Culture.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Usage examples of "tree of knowledge".
But in the center of the hollow the Tree of Knowledge flaunted its scarlet fruit that burned with a flame almost of their own among the green and glossy leaves.
I may dig so deep that I destroy the roots of your tree of knowledge and pull it out.
In fact, he or she is expected to follow the tree of knowledge down its many branchings, choosing the most fascinating arts and disciplines for special study.
Sugasto and the others believe it is the Tree of Knowledge which condemned humanity, as do others, but it is not.
One has eaten of the tree of knowledge, not only of good and evil, but of male and female, of right and wrong, of this and that, and of light and dark.
This may indeed be taken as the curse of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Through known formulas and predictions based on not only observed patterns in the decline of growth in prophecy, but a decline in prophets to sustain it, they determined how this particular tree of knowledge would become heavy with the deadwood of false and expired prophecy as prophetic forks were reached and chronology moved on down the sections of branches still viable.
They had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they knew the difference.
Samael sent me to corrupt Eve -- that was my first negative assignment -- so I assumed the form of a serpent and tempted that foolish girl to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Eve was seduced by a snake and in turn got Adam to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.