word-vault/dist/data/cards/ge/genius.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "genius",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "unusually great intelligence, skill or artistic ability",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the genius of Shakespeare"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a statesman of genius"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her idea was **a stroke of genius**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was at the peak of her creative genius."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a work which shows real genius"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a man of great genius."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's undoubtedly a work of genius."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "pure", "real"],
                "… of genius": ["flash", "spark", "stroke"],
                "verb + genius": ["have", "show"],
                "genius + verb": ["lie in something"],
                "preposition": ["of genius", "genius for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who is unusually intelligent or artistic, or who has a very high level of skill, especially in one area",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **mathematical/comic, etc. genius**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a genius at organizing people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You don't have to be a genius to see that they are in love!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was undoubtedly the greatest comic genius of his age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some people say that there is only ever one true genius born in each generation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're an absolute genius!"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "natural", "eccentric"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a special skill or ability",
            "sensetop": "genius for something/for doing something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had a genius for making people feel at home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a genius for sorting things out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "his genius for pinpointing the absurd"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "pure", "real"],
                "… of genius": ["flash", "spark", "stroke"],
                "verb + genius": ["have", "show"],
                "genius + verb": ["lie in something"],
                "preposition": ["of genius", "genius for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or spirit who is thought to have a good/bad influence over you",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒiːniəs/",
                "audio": "ge/genius/genius__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒiːniəs/",
                "audio": "ge/genius/genius__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin, ‘attendant spirit present from one's birth, innate ability or inclination’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’. The original sense ‘spirit attendant on a person’ gave rise to a sense ‘a person's characteristic disposition’ (late 16th cent.), which led to a sense ‘a person's natural ability’, and finally ‘exceptional natural ability’ (mid 17th cent.)."
}