Definitions for Genet

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Genet gen·et

Spelling: [jen-it, juh-net]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn ɪt, dʒəˈnɛt/

Genet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Genet (eegnt).

Definitions for Genet

noun

1. any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
2. the fur of such an animal.
3. jennet.
4. Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–86, French playwright and novelist.
5. Edmond Charles Edouard [ed-mawn sharl ey-dwar] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), ("Citizen Genêt") 1763–1834, French minister to the U.S. in 1793.
6. pen name of Janet Flanner.
7. a female donkey.
8. a small Spanish horse.
9. Janet (Genêt) 1892–1978, U.S. journalist: long based in Paris.

Origin of Genet

1375-1425; late Middle English Old French genette Arabic jarnait

Examples for Genet

After this debut, Goines continued to write at a furious pace, producing a body of work that echoed Celine, genet, and Burroughs.

Without it all the turbulence of genet would have been as the idle wind.

If genet was imprudent or rash, he was not treacherous; but Morris was all three.

genet then threatened to pay for what he bought with drafts upon the Treasury.

genet was surprised, and inquired if the Congress were not the sovereign?

There she met Janet Flanner, who would become a famed New Yorker correspondent “genet”—for three decades.

You have a mother, genet—a dear sister, Lafourche—why will you not live for them?

genet had merely been an impracticable and impatient enthusiast.

genet was at last got rid of, but the evil that he did lived after him.

The genet had 30 men, not one of whom was wounded by the enemy.