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Genie

Definitions: Genie

Genie

Noun

1. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Genie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born".

Date "genie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Genie

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

GENIE

EnglishGlobal Environment Change Data Network FacilityN/A

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

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Synonyms: Genie

Synonyms: djinni (n), djinny (n), jinnee (n), jinni (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Genie

English words defined with "genie": Aladdin, Aladdin's lamp. (references)
Specialty definitions using "genie": AGLchannel hoppingGEnie Services, GuendolenISPSprintnetThe Network, topic drift, topic threadWPL . (references)
Non-English Usage: "Genie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (genius, man of genius), German (genius, wiz, wizard), Swedish (genius).

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Modern Usage: Genie

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Because of you! The only reason why anybody thinks I'm worth anything is because of you! What if they find out I'm not really a prince? What if Jasmine finds out? I'd lose her. Genie, I can't keep this up on my own. I can't wish you free. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

Kazaam! You know, the one where Shaquille O'Neal plays a genie. (Scary Movie; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans)

Well, you're not gonna believe this, but I just saw a genie with light brown hair chasing a flying sorceress! (Broom-Stick Bunny; writing credit: Tedd Pierce)

When joined the ring forms the word Shazzan, and with this magical command, they are transported back to the fabled land of the Arabian Knights! Here they meet their genie, Shazzan. (Shazzan!; writing credit: Walter Black; William Lutz)

Movie/TV Titles

A Touch of Genie (1974)

Das Blaue Palais: Das Genie (1974)

The Mislayed Genie (1972)

Genie und Galgenstrick (1965)

The Missing Genie (1963)

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

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Commercial Usage: Genie

DomainTitle

Books

  • Genie With the Light Blue Hair (reference)

  • Humor: The Magic of Genie (reference)

  • Scream of the Evil Genie (Give Yourself Goosebumps , No 13) (reference)

  • The Genie in the Bottle (Choose Your Own Adventure, No. 10) (reference)

  • The Old Genie Hottabych (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Christina Aguilera - Genie Gets Her Wish (reference)

  • I Dream of Jeannie: Genie in Training (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Genie

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Genie

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Ochoa on Sky Genie.Credit: NASA.

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

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Usage Frequency: Genie

"Genie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.69% of the time. "Genie" is used about 52 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 (singular)82.69%4352,181
Noun (proper)15.38%8124,375
Noun (common)1.92%1339,140
                    Total100.00%52N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Genie

The following table summarizes the usage of "genie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GenieFirst name Female2,0002,568
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Genie

"Genie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Genie."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
EugeneMaleEnglishN/A
GenieFemaleEnglishEugénie
EugénieFemaleFrenchEugene
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Genie

Expression using "genie": genie Services. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Genie

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

genie

1,136

genie garage door opener

750

game genie

659

genie teeny

347

genie garage door

327

genie teenie

270

dvd genie

217

genie in a bottle

182

genie lift

177

diaper genie

158

i dream of genie

127

lawn genie

103

genie tiny

102

genie door opener

84

sewing genie

79

genie garage

75

genie wild

66

genie industry

54

genie intellicode

47

genie francis

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Genie

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

Albanian

  

xhind (ghost, jinn, jinnee). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مربوطبه اندامهای تناسلی , تناسلی (Reproductive, Sexual), تولیدکننده (Producer, Productive). (various references)

   

German

  

dienstbarer geist. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τζίνι. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dzsinn (djinn, djinni, jinn, jinnee, jinni, Jinny), tündér (elf, Faerie, fairy, Fay, pixie, pixy, sprite, sylph, urchin). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

semangat (courage, elan, esprit, flush, gusto, mercury, pep, spirit, verve, zeal, zest), jin (elf, jinn), hantu (apparition, fiend, ghost, goblin, imp). (various references)

   

Italian

  

genio (genius, gift, talent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jinnee (Jane). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eniegay

   

Portuguese

  

gênio (daemon, ethyl, Genista, genius, spirit, temper), jovialmente. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

джин (geneva 2, gin, jinn, jinnee). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

genio (brains, esprit, genius, mind, nature, spirit, temper, temperament). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ande (genius, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, mind, spirit). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

peri (elf, Faerie, faery, fairy, Fay, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), cin (clever person, demon, elf, Geneva, gin, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hob, hobgoblin, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

дух (esprit, mind, psyche, soul, spirit), джин (gin, satin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Genie

Derivations

Words beginning with "genie": genies. (additional references)

Words containing "genie": autogenies, biogenies, cryogenies, cytogenies, embryogenies, endogenies, epeirogenies, heterogenies, homogenies, isogenies, lysogenies, monogenies, ontogenies, oogenies, orogenies, phylogenies, progenies, xenogenies. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Genie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eenie, enie, gainee, Ganaveh, ganic, ganie, gany, garnie, gbejniet, gebie, Geekie, geena, geenie, geeny, geine, gemii, genae, Genbel, Gence, gende, Geneen, genei, geneic, Genel, geney, geni, genime, genin, genis, Genji, genki, Genlisea, Gennoe, geno, gente, genti, genue, genug, genuie, genuit, genwise, geny, Genzen, Genzi, geria, gernie, gesio, gienke, Giii, ginie, ginir, Ginneken, ginnie, giny, Glenice, gnise, goine, gonie, Gonio, Gopnik, greyie, gsni, Guenage, guine, guinie, gunie, gunkie, gunnii, Gwennie, gwine, jenie, Neniae. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Genie"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "genie" (pronounced jē"nē)
3-ē" n ēbikini, Domine, fettuccine, Larine, linguine, maline, martini, Meany, Sweeny, teeny, weeny, zucchini.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Genie

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: gene, gien.

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

-3 letters: en, in, ne.

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

+1 letter: engine, eyeing, feeing, geeing, genies, jeeing, peeing, seeing, signee, teeing.

 

+2 letters: agenize, beefing, beeping, beguine, beignet, deeding, deeming, deigned, deleing, dreeing, energid, engined, engines, epigean, epigene, epigone, eugenia, eugenic, evening, exigent, feeding, feeling, feezing, feigned, feigner, fleeing, freeing, generic, genesis, genetic, genoise, gentile, genuine, greeing, greenie, greisen, heeding, heeling, heezing, hygiene, ingenue, integer, jeeping, jeering, keeking, keeling, keening, keeping, kneeing, leering, lineage, meeting, needing, neglige, neighed, peeking, peeling, peening, peeping, peering, peeving, preeing, rebegin, reeding, reefing, reeking, reeling, reeving, regimen, reginae, regiven, rehinge, reigned, seeding, seeings, seeking, seeling, seeming, seeping, signees, skeeing, soignee, teeming, treeing, veering, weeding, weening, weeping, weeting.

 

+3 letters: adeeming, agencies, agenesia, agenesis, agenetic, agenized, agenizes, agentive, agreeing, algerine, alienage, anergies, antigene, assignee, bedewing, beeswing, beetling, befinger, befringe, beginner, beguines, beignets, bemingle, beringed, beveling, bewinged, bleeding, bleeping, breeding, breezing, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cleeking, cooeeing, creeling, creeping, deleting, deringer, desexing, designed, designee, designer, develing, edginess, egesting, egestion, eighteen, ejecting, electing, eloigned, eloigner, emceeing, emending, emerging, energids, energies, energise, energize, engilded, engineer, enginery, engirded, engirdle, ensilage, entering, envisage, epigenic, epigones, erecting, erigeron, eringoes, erogenic, eugenias, eugenics, eugenist, evenings, everting, exerting, exigence, exigency, feedings, feelings, feigners, fevering, fingered, fingerer, fleecing, fleering, fleeting, freezing, galenite, gelatine, geminate, generics, genetics, genitive, geniture, geniuses, genocide, genoises, gentiles, gentrice, gentries, gesneria, gingeley, gingered, gleeking, gleeting, glenlike, gneisses, gratinee, greenier, greenies, greening, greenish, greeting, greisens, heelings, heighten, hygienes, indigene, ingenues, ingested, integers, interage, inveigle, jeweling, keepings, kneeling, leeching, legatine, leveeing, leveling, levering, liegeman, liegemen, lineages, lingered, lingerer, lingerie, meetings, meninges, meringue, metering, needling, negative, negligee, negliges, oogenies, peelings, peregrin, perigean, petering, pfennige, preening, pureeing, queening, queering, queueing, razeeing, rebegins, receding, redesign, redyeing, reedings, reedling, reesting, regained, regainer, regimens, regiment, reguline, rehinged, rehinges, reignite, rekeying, reneging, renewing, renigged, reseeing, resewing, resigned, resigner, reveling, revering, seceding, seedling, seemings, seething, segueing, seigneur, severing, sewering, sheening, sheering, sheeting, signeted, sleeking, sleeping, sleeting, sleeving, smeeking, sneering, sneezing, speeding, speeling, speering, steeking, steeling, steeping, steering, steeving, sweeping, sweeting, teething, telexing, tweeting, tweezing, unseeing, vignette, wedeling, weepings, weighmen, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing.

 

+4 letters: agenesias, agentives, agentries, algerines, alienages, anglesite, antigenes, argentine, argentite, assignees, aubergine, beavering, bedecking, beelining, beestings, beeswings, befingers, befleaing, befringed, befringes, begetting, beginners, beheading, beleaping, believing, bemeaning, bemingled, bemingles, bengaline, benighted, bereaving, beseeming, besetting, besieging, bettering, bevelling, beweeping, bigeneric, bignesses, biogenies, bleedings, breeching, breedings, breveting, careening, careering, ceilinged, cementing, centering, clientage, cogencies, concierge, congeeing, congeries, consignee, creeshing, creneling, deadening, deafening, debeaking, deceasing, deceiving, decerning, decreeing, deepening, defeating, defecting, defending, defensing, deferring, defleaing, degerming, dejecting, deleading, deleaving, demeaning, dementing, demerging, denigrate, depending, deperming, depleting, deraigned, deringers, derringer, deserting, deserving, designate, designees, designers, detecting, deterging, deterring, detesting, deveining, devesting, dieseling, digenetic, diligence, disengage, divergent, effecting, egestions, eglantine, egressing, egression, eigenmode, eighteens, elegising, elegizing, elevating, eloigners, embedding, embleming, enameling, endearing, endoergic, endogenic, energetic, energised, energises, energized, energizer, energizes, engineers, engirdled, engirdles, englished, englishes, engrailed, engrained, enlighten, enmeshing, enologies, enserfing, ensilaged, ensilages, envisaged, envisages, epigynies, erigerons, eschewing, espionage, esteeming, eugenists, euglenoid, evangelic, exceeding, excelling, excepting, excessing, excreting, executing, exempting, exergonic, exigences, exigently, expecting, expelling, expending, expensing, experting, exsecting, exserting, extending, farseeing, feelingly, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fingerers, fleeching, foreigner, gaberdine, galenites, garnishee, gelatines, gelignite, geminated, geminates, gendering, genetical, genitives, genitures, genocides, gentrices, genuinely, germanize, germinate, gerundive, gesneriad, gettering, gingeleys, gingelies, glistened, glycerine, gneissose, gnomelike, grapevine, gratineed, gratinees, greeniest, greenings, greenling, greenmail, greensick, greenwing, greetings, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, guideline, gunneries, heehawing, hegemonic, heightens, helmeting, ignescent, impregned, indigence, indigenes, inelegant, ingestive, ingresses, inselberg, integrate, inveighed, inveigher, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, isogeneic, isogenies, jeeringly, jewelling, kenneling, kerneling, ketogenic, laveering, leavening, lechering, leeringly, legginess, lengthier, lessening, lettering, levelling, lightened, lightener, lingerers, lingeries, magnesite, magnetise, magnetite, magnetize, menagerie, meningeal, meringues, metheglin, neatening, needlings, negatived, negatives, negligees, negligent, negotiate, negritude, neologies, neutering, oogenesis, oogenetic, orangerie, orogenies, outseeing, pedogenic, pelleting, peltering, peppering, peregrine, peregrins, pestering, pigeonite, pigmented, preceding, progenies, realigned, rebelling, receiving, recessing, rechewing, recognise, recognize, recoinage, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redingote, reearning, reechoing, reediting, reedlings, reevoking, refecting, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, reflexing, refueling, regainers, regearing, regencies, regiments, rehearing, reheating, reheeling, rehemming, reignited, reignites, reimagine, rejecting, releasing, relending, relenting, reletting, relieving, remedying, remeeting, remelting, remending, remerging, rendering, renesting, reopening, repealing, repeating, repegging, repelling, repenting, reperking, rereading, resealing, reseating, resecting, reseeding, reseeking, reseizing, reselling, resending, resenting, reserving, resetting, reshingle, reshoeing, resigners, reteaming, retearing, retelling, retesting, retighten, revealing, revelling, revenging, reverbing, reversing, reverting, revesting, revetting, reviewing, reweaving, rewedding, rewelding, rewetting, ridgeline, screeding, screening, secerning, secreting, seedlings, seemingly, seesawing, seigneurs, seigneury, selecting, sheetings, sightseen, skewering, sleepings, sniggered, sniggerer, sovereign, speedings, speerings, squeezing, steevings, stereoing, stingaree, streeking, streeling, sweepings, sweetings, synergies, syngeneic, tangerine, teaseling, teazeling, teemingly, teetering, teethings, telegenic, telfering, telneting, tempering, tendering, tentering, tepefying, tethering, threeping, tightened, tightener, tweedling, unfeeling, unfeigned, unfreeing, unheeding, unreeling, unreeving, unweeting, urgencies, veeringly, veneering, vignetted, vignetter, vignettes, villenage, vinegared, weakening, weaseling, weeknight, weeweeing, weltering, wendigoes, westering, wheedling, wheelings, wheepling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Genie


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

47 65 6E 69 65

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)

--.    .    -.    ..    .

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

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

01000111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0069 0065

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

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

4171807571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Derived from
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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