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Meaning of GENET

Pronunciation:  'jenit, zhu'ney

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail
  2. [n]  French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
  3. [n]  French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
 
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 Synonyms: Citizen Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Genetta genetta, Jean Genet
 
 See Also: diplomat, diplomatist, dramatist, Genetta, genus Genetta, novelist, playwright, viverrine, viverrine mammal

 

 

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Genet
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genet.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Gen"et\ (j[e^]n"[e^]t or j[-e]*n[e^]t"), Genette
    
  2. \Gen"et\, n. [See {Jennet}.]
    A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
    --Shak.
    
 

 

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