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Definition: Genius |
GeniusNoun1. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality. 2. Unusual mental ability. 3. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. 4. Exceptional creative ability. 5. A natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "genius" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Genius \Gen"ius\, noun; plural English Geniuses; in sense, from Latin expression Genii. [Latin expression genius, prop., the superior or divine nature which is innate in everything, the spirit, the tutelar deity or genius of person or place, taste, talent, genius, from genere, gignere, to beget, bring forth. See Gender, and compare to Engine.]. (references) |
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Literature | Genius ~~~Genii Genii (Roman mythology) were attendant spirits. Everyone had two of these tutelaries from his cradle to his grave. But the Roman genii differ in many respects from the Eastern. The Persian and Indian genii had a corporeal form, which they could change at pleasure. They were not guardian or attendant spirits, but fallen angels, dwelling in Ginnistan, under the dominion of Eblis. They were naturally hostile to man, though compelled sometimes to serve them as slaves. The Roman genii were tutelary spirits, very similar to the guardian angels spoken of in Scripture (St. Matt. xviii. 10). (The word is the old Latin geno, to be born, from the notion that birth and life were due to these dii genitales.) Genius (birth-wit) is innate talent; hence propensity, nature, inner man. "Cras genium mero curabis" (to-morrow you shall indulge your inner man with wine), Horace, 3 Odes, xvii. 14. "Indulgere genio" (to give loose to one's propensity), Persius, v. 151. "Defraudare genium suum" (to stint one's appetite, to deny one's self), Terence: Phormio, i. 1. (See above.) Genius. Tom Moore says that Common Sense went out one moonlight night with Genius on his rambles; Common Sense went on many wise things saying, but Genius went gazing at the stars, and fell into a river. This is told of Thale by Plato, and Chaucer has introduced it into his Milleres Tale. "So ferde another clerk with astronomye: He walkëd in the feeldës for to prye Upon the sterrës, what ther shuld befall, Till he was in a marlë pit i-fall." Canterbury Tales, 3,457. My evil genius (my ill-luck). The Romans maintained that two genii attended every man from birth to death - one good and the other evil. Good luck was brought about by the agency of "his good genius," and ill luck by that of his "evil genius." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Originally genius is a term from Roman mythology, see: genius (mythology). The modern meaning of the word is different; see below.
In general usage, a genius is either a polymath or a person gifted with particular talents, mainly regarding intelligence. Most people think of intellectual geniuses but there are social geniuses (for example Oscar Wilde) and athletic geniuses.
Among persons widely called geniuses are:
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Roman mythology, every man had a genius and every woman a juno. Juno was also the name for the queen of the gods.Originally, the genius/juno were ancestors who guarded over their descendants. Over time, they turned into personal guardian spirits, granting intellect and prowess. Sacrifices were made to one's genius/juno on one's birthday.
The juno was worshipped under many titles:
See also Lares, Di Penates, Genius loci
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Genius."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GENIUS | English | Global Environmental data Network Information and User System | N/A |
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Synonyms: GeniusSynonyms: ace (n), adept (n), brain (n), brilliance (n), flair (n), hotshot (n), mastermind (n), maven (n), sensation (n), star (n), virtuoso (n), whiz (n), whizz (n), wiz (n), wizard (n), wizardry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. |
Auxiliary | Friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel, tutelary genius. |
Benefactor | Noun: benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth; (good man); auxiliary. |
Demon | Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush. |
Friend | Favorer, fautor, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need; (auxiliary). |
Imitation | Phr.like master like man; " like - but oh! how different! "; " genius borrows nobly "; " pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks "; " quotation confesses inferiority "; "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". |
Intellect | Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul; talent;genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul; talent; (aptitude). |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
Language | Literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship; (scholar). |
Proficient | Genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit. |
Safety | Safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield; (defense); guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci. |
Sage | Noun: sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of the age; longhead, thinker; intellectual, longhair. |
Scholar | Learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius. |
Skill | Cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence; sharpness, readiness; (activity); invention; aptness, turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Genius |
| English words defined with "genius": Anti-American ♦ Bel-esprit ♦ da Vinci ♦ either, Elizabeth, Elizabeth I ♦ flair ♦ Genii, Geniuses ♦ knife-edge ♦ Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci ♦ Norna ♦ To take in ♦ unadulterated ♦ Wit-starved ♦ Yaffle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "genius": Articles interchanged ♦ Beaux Esprits ♦ Cosmiel ♦ Deputy, Dundreary ♦ Genius From Mars Technique, God, Grantorto, green lightning ♦ High Falutin ♦ Jubal ♦ Krita ♦ Leucothea ♦ Marriages of Men of Genius ♦ renown ♦ serial ♦ Terminus ♦ Vathek. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "genius": ingenuous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Genius" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (wizard), Dutch (genius, guardian angel), German (genius, guardian spirit, spirit), Latin (genius, guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation, talent, wit), Swedish (genius). |
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Screenplays | The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I prefer to be called Evil Genius! (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Mom, you're a genius. (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) Pay attention and you will see how genius creates a legend (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) | |
Lyrics | You been tellin' me you're a genius (Reelin' in the Years; performing artist: Steely Dan) It doesn't take a military genius to see (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Genius (1970) Kung Fu Genius (1969) The Face of a Genius (1966) Cradle of Genius (1961) Genius at Work (1946) | |
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 | General view, looking north, showing the "sea side" of the structure. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1984. (Reproduction Number: HAER, CAL,38-SANFRA,140-4) An international icon of American engineering genius, the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 and remains one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. The main span of 4,200 feet crosses the turbulent waters at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Chief engineer Joseph B. Stern started the construction project in 1933. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Caption: "The Genius of Electricity," purchased by Edison at the Paris Exposition of 1889; Unknown Date; {10.387/5} (jpg). |
 | Caption: Bldg. 5, Library, Statue, "The Genius of Electricity" and Edison's Desk; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {12.450/16} (jpg). |  | Dress, the most distinguishing mark of a military genius. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The shackle broken - by the genius of freedom. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | In fact, the vizier had hinted that the young sultan thought himself a genius. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Government has never included the vision, spirit and genius of industrial civilization. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dress, the most distinguishing mark of a military genius / designed and engraved by James Akin, Philada. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frontispiece showing young man seated, with Genius holding a plaque. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Towering genius disdains a beaten path. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Genius, when young, is divine. |
Charles Churchill | Genius is independent of situation. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Since when was genius found respectable? |
John Adams | Genius is sorrow's child. |
Lao-Tzu | To see things in the seed is genius. |
Lord Edward Fitzgerald | Taste is the feminine of genius. |
Michelangelo | Genius is eternal patience. |
Robert Schumann | Talent works, genius creates. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Save in genius, there was in Cournet something of Danton, as, save in divinity, there was in Danton something of Hercules |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. |
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Human Rights | Jamaica | In May a coroner's inquest recommended that all the police involved in the December 1999 death of Patrick Genius should be held criminally responsible. (references) |
Jamaica | Eyewitnesses to the killing claimed that Genius was shot with his hands up in the air after being detained by police officers traveling in an unmarked vehicle. (references) | |
Jamaica | The autopsy report of his death indicated that Genius had sustained two gunshots to the leg and three shots to the head, two of which were to the back of the head. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Hartmann | Phil made money in a lot of directions. He was a Renaissance man. He was a brilliant artist who worked for me as my art department when I was managing a lot of top musical acts. And he did other album covers and logos and ad layouts, and he was a genius. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | Where genius has made for great possibilities, justice and happiness must be reflected in a greater common welfare. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | From one of them we derive our very language and from many of them much of the genius of our institutions. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Yet the promise of this life is imperiled by the very genius that has made it possible. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | History is on the side of freedom and is on the side of societies shaped from the genius of each people. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The genius of America has been its incredible ability to improve the lives of its citizens through a unique combination of governmental and free citizen activity. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In this way, we can harness the American genius for innovation to meet the economic, energy, health, and security challenges that confront our nation. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Genius" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.18% of the time. "Genius" is used about 1,101 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 (singular) | 99.18% | 1,092 | 6,913 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "genius": a man of genius ♦ a poet of genius ♦ a stroke of genius ♦ bump of genius ♦ evil genius ♦ financial genius ♦ genius From Mars Technique ♦ genius loci ♦ genius of language ♦ Genius viridis ♦ good genius ♦ man of genius ♦ of genius ♦ original genius ♦ Picus or Genius viridis ♦ spark of genius ♦ stroke of genius ♦ tutelary genius ♦ versatile genius ♦ with genius ♦ work of genius. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "genius": genius-mathematicians. | |
Ending with "genius": boy-genius, child-genius. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
genius | 2,104 | cam genius web | 28 |
genius iq | 201 | gza genius | 28 |
genius scanner | 167 | budweiser genius man real | 27 |
genius man real | 116 | genius recovery | 27 |
driver genius | 112 | anagram genius | 27 |
baby genius | 82 | cam driver genius web | 27 |
genius mouse | 79 | a heartbreaking work of staggering genius | 23 |
evil genius | 69 | color genius page vivid | 22 |
real genius | 61 | genius real soundtrack | 19 |
genius mouse driver | 59 | stroke of genius | 18 |
genius scanner driver | 56 | definition genius | 16 |
genius iq score | 44 | genius netscroll | 16 |
jimmy neutron boy genius | 42 | become genius | 14 |
genius zip | 42 | genius modem | 14 |
iq genius level | 40 | driver genius scaner | 14 |
bud genius light man real | 37 | color genius page sp2 | 14 |
child genius | 36 | genius kid | 14 |
genius test | 31 | chess genius | 13 |
book genius record world | 29 | genius iq test | 13 |
color genius page | 28 | genius sound card | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "genius"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjeni, shpirt (animus, heart, mind, psyche, soul, spirit), njeri gjenial, engjëll mbrojtës (guardian angel), aftësi gjeniale. (various references) | |
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), موهبة (aptitude, capability, endowment, facility, flair, gift, instinct, knack, skill, talent, vocation), نزعة (bent, bias, direction, disposition, leaning, movement, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind), نبوغ (mentality), سجية (nature), عفريت (demon, evil genius, evil spirit, gnome, goblin, imp, pixy, puck, rascal, rogue, tinker), عبقرية (geniality), النابغة, العبقري, الروح الحارسة (demon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гений (daemon, phenomenon), гениалност, добър или зъл дух, дарба (ability, appanage, aptitude, competence, competency, dowry, endowment, faculty, flair, gift). (various references) | |
Chinese | 天才 (gift, gifted, talent, talented). (various references) | |
Czech | genialita (greatness), génius (master mind, mastermind), veleduch, talent (ability, capabilities, faculty, gift, talent), strážný duch, nadání (aptitude, faculty, gift, talent). (various references) | |
Dutch | genius (guardian angel), genie (man of genius), beschermgeest. (various references) | |
Esperanto | geniulo (man of genius), genio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | flogvit. (various references) | |
Farsi | نابغه (Wizard), نبوغ (Ingenuity), ژنی , استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Caliber, Capacity, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Liability, Property, Shift, Tendency, Turquoise, Verve), دماغ . (various references) | |
Finnish | nerous, nerokkuus (ingeniousness, ingenuity), nero, hengetär, haltija (fairy, gnome, goblin, guardian spirit, holder, occupant, owner, possessor). (various references) | |
French | génie (geniality). (various references) | |
German | Genie (wiz, wizard), genius (guardian spirit, spirit). (various references) | |
Greek | μεγαλοφυία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלוי (prodigy), כשרון (ability, aptitude, capability, competence, endowment, facility, flair, gift, knack, talent), 'און, 'או יות, 'או י, '"ול ""ור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zseni (genious, whiz), démon (daemon, demon, devil, djinn, djinni, fiend, jinn, jinnee, jinni). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kecerdasan pikiran. (various references) | |
Italian | genio (genie, gift, talent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 俊秀 (prodigy, talented person), 俊才 (prodigy, talented person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅ"し, じゅ" (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, innocent, level, order, pure, quasi, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard, turn), ジーニアス , れいしつ (beauty, charm, your wife), いさい (conspicuous colour, details, great talent, particulars, prodigy, remarkable man), いざい (bequest, extraordinary talent, inheritance), にゅうし" (entering a port, entering the faith, inspiration, super-human skill), て"さい (disaster, horizon, natural calamity, natural gift, prodigy, reprinting, sugar beet), しゅ" (excellence, season, talented person), そしつ (character, qualities), しゅ"えい (excellence), しゅ"けつ (hero), しゅ"いつ (excellence), しゅ"さい (person of exceptional talent, prodigy, talented person), しゅ"しゅう (prodigy, talented person), そうさくりょく (creative originality, creative power), きさい (already settled, entry, great talent, issuing of bonds, mention, paid up, shrewdness, wizard), さい (ability, again, alas!, aptitude, circumstances, companion, cut, debt, difference, disparity, gift, hold, how!, judge, loan, my son, on the occasion of, planting, re-, repeated, rhinoceros, son, talent, the extreme, the most, what!, -years-old). (various references) | |
Korean | 준재 (Genii, Geniuses). (various references) | |
Manx | ard-cheeayllagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | geni, skytsånd. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eniusgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gênio (daemon, ethos, genie, genii, spirit, temper). (various references) | |
Romanian | geniu (engineering, essence, spirit), genialitate (giftedness), talent (ability, accomplishments, aptitude, capability, dower, dowry, endowment, facility, faculty, felicity, gift, ingenuity, knack, part, skill, talent, turn, twist), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, ghost, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), om de geniu, minte strãlucitã, duh (ghost, soul, spirit, wit), dar (and, bestowal, bounty, but, consequently, dowry, endowment, gift, grant, hence, however, pledge, present, sop, still, yet), abilitate (ability, address, adroitness, aptness, art, cleverness, competence, craft, cunning, deftness, finesse, knack, resourcefulness, skill, talent). (various references) | |
Russian | гений (genii). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | genije (genii, ingenious person, wizard). (various references) | |
Spanish | genio (brains, esprit, genie, mind, nature, spirit, temper, temperament), genialidad (brilliant idea), ingenio (ability, apparatus, artfulness, cleverness, consciousness, contraption, device, engine, erudition, foundry, ingenuity, inventiveness, mill, nimbleness, plant, saltiness, talented person, wisp, wit), de genio. (various references) | |
Swedish | snille (genious), geni. (various references) | |
Turkish | görüş (apprehension, argument, aspect, case, concept, conviction, estimation, eye, feeling, horizon, idea, interest, notion, opinion, optical, outlook, position, sentiments, sight, thought, view, vision, visual), yaratıcılık (art, creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, ingenuity, invention, productivity), ruh (astral body, aura, esprit, essence, essential oil, ghost, heartbeat, inner man, manes, pith, pith and marrow, psyche, shade, smelling salts, soul, spirit), koruyucu melek (guardian angel, life saver), deha (wiz), dahilik, dahi (also, as well, eke, even, item, likewise, prodigy, too, wizard), düşünce yapısı (frame of mind). (various references) | |
Turkmen | geniя (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | геніальність, обдарованість (ability, aptitude, aptness, capability, cleverness). (various references) | |
Welsh | athrylith (ingenuity, intuition, talent), anian (instinct, nature, temperament). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | genius, indoles. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "genius": geniuses. (additional references) | |
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"Genius" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeonius, Cencius, Fenioux, gaius, Geminus, geneas, geneious, geneius, genics, genious, genips, genis, genist, genisus, genitus, genuie, Genuis, genuit, genuos, getihu, ginnie, goniums, jeanius, Jeanuius, menius, Nennius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "genius" (pronounced jē"nyus) |
| 6 | j ē" n y u s | heterogeneous, ingenious. |
| 3 | -y u s | rebellious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: genus, guise, negus, segni, sengi, singe, suing, using. | |
-2 letters: egis, engs, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, guns, sign, sine, sing, snug, sung. | |
-3 letters: eng, ens, gen, gie, gin, gnu, gun, ins, nus, seg, sei, sen, sin, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, nu, si, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ensuing, guineas, gunites, gunnies, igneous, reusing, sueding. | |
+2 letters: beguines, bemusing, blueings, defusing, dinguses, dungiest, effusing, enginous, ensuring, epigonus, eugenias, eugenics, eugenist, excusing, geniuses, guanines, guessing, guesting, gunfires, guylines, indulges, ingenues, legumins, ligneous, misbegun, penguins, perusing, questing, recusing, refusing, rescuing, resuming, sanguine, sauteing, securing, seducing, segueing, seigneur, snuggies, supering, ugliness, unhinges, unitages, unseeing, unsewing, unsexing, unsigned, ushering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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