genie
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ni noun
1.
Islamic Mythology, jinn.
2.
a spirit, often appearing in human form, that when summoned by a person carries out the wishes of the summoner.
3.
any spirit; demon.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (in fairy tales and stories) a servant who appears by magic and fulfils a person's wishes |
| 2. | another word for jinni |
| [C18: from French génie, from Arabic jinni demon, influenced by Latin genius attendant spirit; see | |
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| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
genie
1655, "tutelary spirit," from Fr. genie, from L. genius (see genius); used in Fr. translation of "Arabian Nights" to render Arabic jinni, pl. of jinn "spirit," which it accidentally resembled, and attested in Eng. with this sense from 1748.
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Example sentences
But the genie was out of the bottle: paper money had arrived.
As one diplomat notes, once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can't control it.
The technology genie is now out of the bottle and it is changing the way the next generation is interacting and shaping our world.
Once you have infected adults in the air, the genie is out of the bottle.
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