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GENII

Definition: GENII

GENII

Plural

1. Of Genius

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GENII" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonym: GENII

Synonym: Jinns. (additional references)

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Crosswords: GENII

English words defined with "GENII": AnunnakiEnuki. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GENII": ALADDIN, Alfar, Alfheim, AsoorsBennaskar, BoudersChilminar'Djinnestan', DufargeGenii King, Gian ben Gian, Giants, GodsJamshid'KemaNursery TalesPagan Works of ArtRachadersShooting StarsTerminus. (references)
Etymologies containing "GENII": genius. (references)

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Modern Usage: GENII

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's all part and parcel of the whole genii gig: phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty living space. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

Movie/TV Titles

Fong Sze Yu's Invasion of Genii Peak (1951)

Genii of the Vase (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GENII

DomainTitle

Books

  • A.S. Griboedov : litso i genii (reference)

  • Genii filosofii novogo vremeni (reference)

  • Genii Loci (reference)

  • Genii loci dispersi : Beitr. zu "Wuppertaler Philosophen" : dörging, Ebbinghaus, Buchenau, Jesinghaus, Hammer, Stöcker, Bertram, Vetter, Feldmann, Carnap (reference)

  • Genii of the River Niger (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: GENII

Illustrations:
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Use in Literature: GENII

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There were other dolls behind the large one that appeared to her to be fairies and genii.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: GENII

"GENII" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "GENII" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)45.45%5157,705
Noun (singular)36.36%4175,879
Noun (proper)18.18%2245,945
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GENII

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

genii magazine

7

genii

6

genii genii magazine

4

forum genii

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GENII

Language Translations for "GENII"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

å¤©æ‰ (genius, Geniuses). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγαλοφυίες. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

védõszellemek. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

준재 (genius, Geniuses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eniigay

   

Portuguese

  

espírito (esprit, ghost, go, jinx, mind, Nova, poltroon, psyche, python, soul, spirit, sprite, tone, wit). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pl. de la genius. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гении (geniuses), духи (essence, perfume, scent). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

genije (genius, ingenious person, wizard). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pl. de genius, pl. de genie. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

periler (elves, fairies, fairydom, little people, the little people), koruyucu melekler, cinler (elves, jinn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: GENII

Misspellings

"GENII" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaini, ganic, gemii, genei, geney, geni, genin, genise, Genji, genki, Gennadii, Gennari, genti, genuit, geny, Genzi, Giii, gini, ginir, glenoid, Gonio, gonovii, greigii, gsni, gunnii. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GENII

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n"

-1 letter: gien.

-2 letters: eng, gen, gie, gin.

-3 letters: en, in, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n"
 

+1 letter: dieing, gieing, hieing, ignite, pieing, tieing.

 

+2 letters: ceiling, deicing, dieting, dingier, dingies, editing, eliding, epigoni, eviting, exiling, exiting, gingeli, ginnier, heiling, heiring, ignited, igniter, ignites, imagine, impinge, inbeing, indigen, insigne, inveigh, iteming, lignite, lingier, mingier, nightie, peining, peising, piecing, reining, reiving, seining, seising, seizing, sieging, sieving, tiering, veiling, veining, viewing, viseing, wingier, zingier.

 

+3 letters: aliening, arginine, bemiring, bemixing, beriming, betiding, bielding, bigeminy, bingeing, biogenic, bitewing, briefing, ceilings, clingier, deairing, debiting, deciding, defiling, defining, deifying, deigning, deliming, demising, deriding, deriving, desiring, deviling, devising, diligent, dinghies, dingiest, dizening, edifying, eloining, emailing, emitting, enditing, engining, enisling, ensiling, enticing, epigenic, epigonic, evicting, evincing, exciding, excising, exciting, existing, expiring, feigning, feinting, fielding, figuline, figurine, fileting, fringier, gainlier, genitive, gingelis, gingelli, gingivae, ginniest, gliadine, gneissic, grainier, grieving, heisting, hireling, hygienic, ibogaine, ideating, ignified, ignifies, igniters, imagined, imaginer, imagines, immingle, impeding, impinged, impinger, impinges, inbeings, indexing, indigene, indigens, indigent, indigoes, infringe, inhering, intrigue, inveighs, inveigle, isogenic, jinglier, kinglier, kinglike, kingside, libeling, lignites, ligroine, likening, lingerie, lingiest, linguine, livening, meriting, migraine, mimeoing, mingiest, misbegin, misgiven, mitering, neighing, nidering, nighties, peignoir, periling, piecings, piercing, quieting, reaginic, reciting, refiling, refining, refiring, refixing, regiving, rehiring, reifying, reigning, reignite, reinking, religion, relining, reliving, remising, remixing, reoiling, repining, rerising, residing, resiling, resining, resiting, resizing, retiling, retiming, retiring, reviling, revising, reviving, rewiring, riesling, ringlike, ringside, ripening, riveting, seignior, seisings, seizings, shieling, sideling, sinewing, singeing, skeining, speiling, speiring, spieling, spiering, stingier, swingier, thieving, tingeing, tinglier, veilings, veinings, vicinage, viewings, weighing, widening, wielding, wingiest, winglike, wizening, yielding, zingiest.

 

+4 letters: abiogenic, aborigine, abseiling, achieving, aerifying, agenizing, anglicise, anglicize, antigenic, arginines, becriming, bedimming, beelining, befitting, beginning, begirding, begriming, beguiling, bekissing, believing, bemisting, benignity, besieging, besliming, besmiling, bewailing, bewigging, bickering, bigeminal, bigeneric, billeting, biogenies, bioregion, birdieing, bisecting, bitewings, bittering, boogieing, briefings, ceilinged, chiseling, cindering, ciphering, clingiest, coediting, cognitive, crediting, daikering, debriding, deceiving, declining, dehiscing, delisting, demitting, depicting, depriving, derailing, designing, desisting, despising, despiting, destining, detailing, detaining, deticking, deveining, deviating, devilling, devoicing, dezincing, diademing, diapering, dickering, dieseling, differing, digenetic, digesting, digestion, dignified, dignifies, dignities, diligence, dinginess, directing, diseasing, distingue, dithering, diverging, diverting, divesting, driveling, ebonising, ebonizing, eclipsing, elegising, elegizing, eliciting, eloigning, engilding, engirding, enigmatic, enjoining, enlisting, enquiring, enriching, entailing, entitling, entoiling, entwining, enwinding, epigonism, epigynies, equipping, erotizing, esquiring, evildoing, examining, expiating, fidgeting, figulines, figurines, filleting, filtering, finessing, fingering, fingertip, friending, fringiest, fungicide, gainliest, gelignite, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitival, genitives, gentility, giantlike, gibbering, gibbeting, giddiness, gimleting, gingelies, gingellis, gingering, gliadines, gneissoid, grainiest, grecizing, griminess, guanidine, guideline, heroizing, hindering, hirelings, hirseling, hogtieing, hoidening, hygienics, hygienist, ibogaines, ignitable, ignitible, imaginers, imbedding, immerging, immersing, immeshing, immingled, immingles, impelling, impending, impingers, incensing, incepting, indenting, indexings, indigence, indigenes, indigents, infecting, inferring, infesting, infighter, infringed, infringer, infringes, ingenious, ingenuity, ingesting, ingestion, ingestive, ingrained, injecting, inletting, inmeshing, innerving, inserting, insetting, instigate, integrity, intending, interning, interring, intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, inveighed, inveigher, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, inventing, inverting, investing, inweaving, isogeneic, isogenies, isogonies, itemising, itemizing, iterating, jiggering, jingliest, jittering, kingliest, kingsides, kippering, kittening, libelling, licencing, licensing, lichening, lignified, lignifies, ligroines, lilangeni, limbering, lingeries, lingering, linguines, lippening, lippering, listening, littering, loitering, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, mediating, migraines, mildening, mildewing, misbegins, miseating, mitogenic, nickeling, nickering, niderings, nielloing, niffering, nightlife, nightside, nighttime, nigrified, nigrifies, obelising, obelizing, orienting, originate, pectizing, peignoirs, penciling, peptizing, perilling, perishing, picketing, pidginize, piercings, pigeonite, pilfering, pinkening, pipetting, poetising, poetizing, precising, prefiling, prefiring, prefixing, prehiring, premising, premixing, presiding, prevising, priesting, quivering, realising, realizing, rebaiting, rebidding, rebilling, rebinding, reboiling, receiving, reclining, recoiling, recoining, redialing, redipping, redlining, redriving, reediting, refilling, refilming, refinding, refitting, regaining, regilding, rehinging, reignited, reignites, reimagine, reimaging, reissuing, rejoicing, rejoining, relieving, religions, relinking, relishing, relisting, remailing, remaining, reminding, reminting, remitting, renailing, renigging, repairing, repinning, repricing, reprising, requiring, requiting, reraising, rerigging, resailing, reseizing, reshining, resifting, resigning, resisting, resitting, respiring, respiting, retailing, retaining, retinting, retitling, reuniting, reviewing, revoicing, rewinding, rewinning, rewriting, richening, ridgeline, ridgeling, rieslings, rigidness, ringsides, rivetting, scrieving, seigniors, seigniory, seriating, servicing, shielding, shielings, shivering, shrieking, shrieving, sickening, signalise, signalize, signeting, signified, signifier, signifies, signories, signorine, silencing, silvering, simmering, simpering, singspiel, sintering, sistering, sleighing, slivering, sniveling, sortieing, springier, stingiest, stringier, stymieing, swingeing, swingiest, swiveling, ticketing, tillering, timbering, tingliest, tinkering, tinseling, tiptoeing, tittering, toileting, toxigenic, twingeing, unveiling, verifying, vicinages, vigilance, vigilante, weighting, whingeing, whitening, whitewing, wildering, willinger, windigoes, wintering, withering, zippering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GENII


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 4E 49 49

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01001110 01001001 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#73 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0049 0049

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4139484343

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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