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Definition of genie in English: genienounPlural genii, Plural genies ˈdʒiːniˈdʒini A spirit of Arabian folklore, as depicted traditionally imprisoned within a bottle or oil lamp, and capable of granting wishes when summoned. 魔仆（指阿拉伯民间传说中的一个精灵，被囚禁于瓶子或油灯中，被召唤时现身问召唤者有何愿望，得到回答后即能使愿望实现）。比较JINN Compare with jinn Example sentencesExamples - Proper genies only grant wishes when they want to.
- Supernatural creatures such as angels, genies, ghosts, and spirits, are believed to exist.
- Contrary to what you might think, genies have quite a bit of control over what wishes get granted.
- He wanted me to help him summon the genie for whatever evil plot he had planned.
- Can she melt her tyrant husband's cold heart with her tales of treasures, monsters, genies, magic and romance and create a true story of her own?
- Images of genies and bottles, clocks turned back, trains leaving stations, and the like tend to pepper our discourse and justify our passivity in the face of a historical force majeure.
- It was true that a person chosen to receive the help of a genie got three wishes.
- She didn't care if he was a genie that could make her dearest wishes come true.
- Once again, we see that you cannot put the genie back in the bottle once it is out.
- All manner of unsavoury genies have been released from bottles in which they slumbered quite safely; they are not easily returned.
- His friend summoned the genie, and made a wish that all of the forty thieves would be sent to a land far away.
- His second wish was to have piles of gold, and the genie granted it.
- The breathtaking effects - genies in bottles, magic carpets - are by the stage illusionist responsible for the famous scene in the musical The Witches Of Eastwick.
- Let's get a genie and wish that we could be young again and all of those things could be true.
- He spies a bottle that looks like it could hold a genie, so he rubs it.
- If you had your choice, if you could pull a genie out of a bottle and the genie could grant you three wishes, what would your three wishes be?
- The genie is out of the bottle and now we must learn to live with it.
- Be careful what you unleash: some genies can never be put back in their bottles.
- They recognized that getting the nuclear genie back in the bottle was nigh impossible.
- With the genie out of the bottle, it was only a matter of time before something more horrid would emerge.
OriginMid 17th century (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius (see genius). Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-century French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī 'jinnee'. RhymesAthene, bambini, beanie, Bellini, Bernini, bikini, Boccherini, Borromini, capellini, catenae, Cellini, Cherubini, Cyrene, Fellini, fettuccine, greeny, grissini, Heaney, Houdini, Jeanie, linguine, martini, Mazzini, mankini, meanie, Mussolini, Mycenae, Paganini, Panini, porcini, Puccini, queenie, rapini, Rossellini, Rossini, Santoríni, Selene, spaghettini, Sweeney, teeny, teeny-weeny, tortellini, Toscanini, Trini, tweeny, wahine, weeny, zucchini Definition of genie in US English: genienounˈdʒiniˈjēnē A spirit of Arabian folklore, as traditionally depicted imprisoned within a bottle or oil lamp, and capable of granting wishes when summoned. 魔仆（指阿拉伯民间传说中的一个精灵，被囚禁于瓶子或油灯中，被召唤时现身问召唤者有何愿望，得到回答后即能使愿望实现）。比较JINN Compare with jinn Example sentencesExamples - Let's get a genie and wish that we could be young again and all of those things could be true.
- Can she melt her tyrant husband's cold heart with her tales of treasures, monsters, genies, magic and romance and create a true story of her own?
- It was true that a person chosen to receive the help of a genie got three wishes.
- Contrary to what you might think, genies have quite a bit of control over what wishes get granted.
- He wanted me to help him summon the genie for whatever evil plot he had planned.
- All manner of unsavoury genies have been released from bottles in which they slumbered quite safely; they are not easily returned.
- The breathtaking effects - genies in bottles, magic carpets - are by the stage illusionist responsible for the famous scene in the musical The Witches Of Eastwick.
- Images of genies and bottles, clocks turned back, trains leaving stations, and the like tend to pepper our discourse and justify our passivity in the face of a historical force majeure.
- With the genie out of the bottle, it was only a matter of time before something more horrid would emerge.
- She didn't care if he was a genie that could make her dearest wishes come true.
- He spies a bottle that looks like it could hold a genie, so he rubs it.
- They recognized that getting the nuclear genie back in the bottle was nigh impossible.
- The genie is out of the bottle and now we must learn to live with it.
- His friend summoned the genie, and made a wish that all of the forty thieves would be sent to a land far away.
- Proper genies only grant wishes when they want to.
- His second wish was to have piles of gold, and the genie granted it.
- Supernatural creatures such as angels, genies, ghosts, and spirits, are believed to exist.
- Once again, we see that you cannot put the genie back in the bottle once it is out.
- If you had your choice, if you could pull a genie out of a bottle and the genie could grant you three wishes, what would your three wishes be?
- Be careful what you unleash: some genies can never be put back in their bottles.
OriginMid 17th century (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius (see genius). Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-century French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī ‘jinnee’. |