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genii

American  
[jee-nee-ahy] / ˈdʒi niˌaɪ /

noun

  1. a plural of genius.


genii British  
/ ˈdʒiːnɪˌaɪ /

noun

  1. the plural of genius genius

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020

The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.

From BBC • May 15, 2011

"We could become a nation of typographic genii through a litany of design atrocities," Bents reasoned.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2010

Jann, jan, n. one of the lowest of the five orders of Mohammedan genii.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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