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Definition: GENIUSES |
GENIUSESPlural1. Of Genius |
Date "GENIUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: GENIUSES |
| Specialty definitions using "GENIUSES": HURST ♦ Stupids ♦ Terminus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GENIUSES": genius. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it! (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) Most geniuses are. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Clever | My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies (2003) Sports Geniuses (2000) Baby Geniuses (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Napoleon was one of those geniuses who rule the thunder. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "GENIUSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.49% of the time. "GENIUSES" is used about 47 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 91.49% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.51% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GENIUSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 天才 (Genii, genius). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Genies (wizzes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | démonok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 준재 (Genii, genius). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eniusesgay гении (genii). (various references) geniji. (various references) геній. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"GENIUSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geniouses, genisus, Genlisea, Glenluce. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GENIUSES" (pronounced jē"nyusuz) |
| 4 | -u s u z | accomplices, actresses, addresses, aliases, amaryllises, apparatuses, apprentices, biases, bonuses, businesses, buttresses, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, caucuses, censuses, choruses, circuses, congresses, crevices, crocuses, embarrasses, encompasses, eyewitnesses, fetuses, focuses, fortresses, furnaces, goddesses, grimaces, harnesses, hippopotamuses, hospices, hostesses, illnesses, injustices, irises, justices, likenesses, mattresses, minuses, mistresses, necklaces, notices, novices, offices, omnibuses, orifices, palaces, penises, porpoises, poultices, prejudices, premises, promises, prospectuses, purchases, purposes, refocuses, repurchases, retroviruses, seamstresses, services, sinuses, stewardesses, surfaces, surpluses, terraces, tortoises, treatises, viruses, waitresses, walruses, weaknesses, witnesses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, aces, acquaintances, advances, affixes, albatrosses, allegiances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, appearances, appendixes, appliances, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, balances, bases, basses, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, Busses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, Casas, cases, cayuses, ceases, chances, chases, choices, circumstances, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embraces, eminences, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, forces, foxes, fragrances, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, headdresses, hindrances, hisses, hoaxes, horses, houses, hyraxes, ices, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, medusas, messes, minibuses, misses, missus, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, nieces, nixes, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, ordinances, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, paradoxes, passes, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, possesses, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, pronounces, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, senses, sentences, sequences, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surpasses, surtaxes, taxes, tolerances, tosses, townhouses, traces, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, voices, waltzes, waxes, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: genesis, genuses, neguses, seeings, signees. | |
-2 letters: egises, ensues, genies, genius, gneiss, guises, gussie, seeing, segues, seines, sieges, signee, singes. | |
-3 letters: ensue, genes, genie, genus, guess, guise, issue, negus, nisus, segni, segue, seine, seise, sengi, sense, siege, signs, sines, singe, sings, sinus, snugs, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: egis, engs, eses, gees, gene, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, guns, ness, seen, sees, segs, seis, sene, sign, sine, sing, sins, snug, sues, sung, suns, uses. | |
-5 letters: eng, ens, ess, gee, gen, gie, gin, gnu, gun, ins, nee, nus, see, seg, sei, sen, sin, sis, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: eugenists, seigneurs. | |
+2 letters: snuggeries, uglinesses. | |
+3 letters: ensanguines, eugenicists, gaudinesses, genuineness, gumminesses, gushinesses, gustinesses, gutsinesses, insurgences, mugginesses, mutagenesis, pudginesses, seigneuries, subagencies, superseding, supersinger. | |
+4 letters: disguisement, enduringness, exiguousness, extinguishes, fugitiveness, grievousness, grubbinesses, grumpinesses, guilefulness, guiltinesses, guttersnipes, hungrinesses, insurgencies, messeigneurs, sanguineness, sequestering, smudginesses, sunscreening, supersingers, turgidnesses, unaggressive. | |
+5 letters: amusingnesses, cunningnesses, disguisements, doughtinesses, egregiousness, exsanguinates, extinguishers, gainfulnesses, genuinenesses, grouchinesses, guilelessness, guiltlessness, haughtinesses, housekeepings, immunogeneses, immunogenesis, ingeniousness, ingenuousness, languidnesses, meetinghouses, misguidedness, naughtinesses, religiousness, righteousness, roguishnesses, sequestrating, superagencies, surgeonfishes, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, unfeelingness, ungodlinesses, unprogressive, uprightnesses, uptightnesses, voguishnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 45 4E 49 55 53 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. .. ..- ... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000101 01001110 01001001 01010101 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E N I U S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 004E 0049 0055 0053 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4139484355533953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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