genie
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- noun
- /dʒiːni/
- Literature
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genio
- Many fairy tales feature a powerful genie who can influence the outcome of challenging quests.
We're going to create this genie and keep it in a bottle.
- We're going to create this genie and keep it in a bottle.
- He bends down and there was a bottle and a genie pops out.
- They say he was in a movie called Shazam where he played the genie.
- Did you think of your mind as like the genie in a bottle that says your wish is my command?
- But, but it is somewhat of the magic genie problem where if you have a magic genie that can grant all the wishes, usually those stories don't end well.
- Meaning if there was a genie that could grant you one wish, but just one wish, most we would all wish for more wishes, right?
- And I was obsessed with the genie and Robin Williams and my mom.
- Narcissistic rage is the genie you can never put back in the bottle.
- So, well, were you surprised, like when I first was seeing this, that the government stayed passively because as you said, the genie is out of the bottle now.
- And the genie says, you know, a road to Hawaii, you know, that would be an engineering miracle.
Examples
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He bends down and there was a bottle and a genie pops out.
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Meaning if there was a genie that could grant you one wish, but just one wish, most we would all wish for more wishes, right?
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"Three men came across a female genie who promised to grant each one a wish."
Fiction book (1998) -
We're going to create this genie and keep it in a bottle.
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"My magic genie will help me keep the water in this cup," she'd tell them.
Fiction book (2000) -
They rub it, a genie comes out.
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In the story, a genie emerged from the lamp and granted the boy three wishes.
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The legend says that if you find a genie in a bottle, you can ask for anything you desire.
Synonyms
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An invisible spirit in Muslim belief that can appear as people or animals and affect humans
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A spirit in Islamic stories that can appear as a person or animal and affect people
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A spirit in Islamic stories that is invisible and can appear as a human or animal
An invisible spirit from Islamic stories that sometimes affects people
An invisible spirit people believe can appear as a person or animal and cause strange events
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Etymology
Genie comes from old words for a spirit and is related to the Latin word genius, which meant a 'guardian spirit', and to the Arabic word jinn, which means 'hidden one'. So a genie in stories is a magical spirit often kept in a lamp who can grant wishes.