GENIE


Meaning of GENIE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒi:ni ]

( genies)

1.

In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that the genie is out of the bottle or that someone has let the genie out of the bottle , you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people’s lives, especially a bad change.

PHRASE : V inflects

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