Genie Definition

jēnē
noun
A supernatural creature who does one's bidding when summoned.
American Heritage

A jinn, now, esp., one in fables and stories who is confined to a lamp or bottle and who grants the wishes of whoever releases him.

Webster's New World
A jinni.
American Heritage

(Islam) An invisible spirit mentioned in the Qur'an and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.

Wiktionary
A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
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Other Word Forms of Genie

Noun

Singular:
genie
Plural:
genii 2, genies

Origin of Genie

  • French génie guardian spirit, tutelary deity, later also jinni (sense influenced by Arabic jinnī jinni) from Latin genius guardian spirit genius

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French génie (“genius", "genie”) (used to translate Arabic جِنّ (jinn) based on similarity of sound and sense) from Latin genius (“household guardian spirit”)

    From Wiktionary

Genie Sentence Examples

  • He's a genie offering a bottle with a flying carpet tossed in.

  • But in 1802 Chateaubriand had published his epoch-making Genie du Christianisme, in which he declared that of all religions Christianity was " the most poetical, the most human, the most favourable to freedom, art and letters."

  • Sure enough, out pops a genie with an attitude.

  • He received his training as an engineer at Mezieres, becoming an officer of the Corps de Genie in 1773 and a captain ten years later.

  • In 1839 he was appointed professor of foreign literature at Lyons, where he began the brilliant course of lectures afterwards embodied in the Two years later he was transferred to the College de France, and the Genie des religions itself appeared (1842) .

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