GENIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genie mean? 

• GENIE (noun)
  The noun GENIE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GENIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

djinn; djinni; djinny; genie; jinnee; jinni

Hypernyms ("genie" is a kind of...):

disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

Domain category:

Islam; Islamism; Mohammedanism; Muhammadanism; Muslimism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genie"):

shaitan; shaytan ((Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray)

eblis ((Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology)

 Context examples 

I saw Uriah watch her while she greeted us; and he reminded me of an ugly and rebellious genie watching a good spirit.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I see him yet standing there like a pigmy out of the Arabian Nights before the huge front of some malignant genie.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as historical in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer wonder tales in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)