name
Meaning 1
A surname from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
genet
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt/
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rhymes with -ɛnɪt
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homophone: jennet
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CMU ARPABET: JH EH1 N IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Genetta genetta
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: viverrine, viverrine mammal
noun
Meaning 7
French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jean Genet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dramatist, playwright, novelist
noun
Meaning 8
French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: diplomat, diplomatist
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French Genet.
From Middle English genet, ionet, from Anglo-Norman genette, Middle French genette, jenette et al., of uncertain origin.
Coined in the 20th century from gene + -et.
See jennet.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: muskeljaatkat — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Arabic: زُرَيْقَاء (zurayqāʔ) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Asturian: xineta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Asturian: llegra — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Basque: katajineta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Bedjond: tāgɨ̄ — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Catalan: geneta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Catalan: gat mesquer — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Chinese Mandarin: 獛 (pú) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Czech: ženetka — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Dutch: genet — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Esperanto: genoto — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Finnish: genetti — mammal of the genus Genetta
- French: genette — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Galician: algaria — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Galician: rebisaco — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Galician: rabilongo — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Galician: gato de algalia — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Galician: corredoira — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Georgian: ვივერა (vivera) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- German: Genette — mammal of the genus Genetta
- German: Ginsterkatze — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Hebrew: גחן (gekhán) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Hungarian: petymeg — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Italian: genetta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Karang: ɓele — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Mbay: tāgɨ̄ — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Ngambay: tāgɨ̄ — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Njyem: sii — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Polish: żeneta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Portuguese: gineta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Romanian: genetă — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Romanian: ginetă — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Russian: гене́тта (genétta) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Russian: гене́та (genéta) — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Senoufo Djimini: cɛngɛ — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Spanish: jineta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Spanish: gineta — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Swahili: kanu — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Swedish: genett — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Wolof: yoolaan — mammal of the genus Genetta
- Finnish: klooniyhdyskunta — (biology) group of genetically identical individuals
- Italian: genet — (biology) group of genetically identical individuals
- Polish: genet — (biology) group of genetically identical individuals
- Portuguese: geneta — (biology) group of genetically identical individuals
- Portuguese: genet — (biology) group of genetically identical individuals