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 Translation for 'genius' from English to French
NOUN   a genius | geniuses / genii
SYNO brain | brainiac | brilliance | ...
balèze {m} [fam.] [fig.] [as]genius
prodige {m} [personne très douée]genius
génie {m} [aptitude, personne, talent]genius
balèze {f} [fam.] [fig.] [as]genius [female]
2 Words
artslittérat.mus.
génie {m} créatif
creative genius
fin.
génie {m} de la finance
financial genius
génie {m} naturelnatural genius
3 Words
avoir du génieto be a genius
homme {m} de génie(man of) genius
coup {m} de géniestroke of genius
trait {m} de géniestroke of genius
idée {f} de géniestroke of genius
4 Words
passer pour un génieto pass as a genius
5+ Words
Elle se prend pour un génie.She thinks she's a genius.
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Usage Examples English
  • "Genius Wars" is the third book of Australian author Catherine Jinks' Evil Genius series, after "Evil Genius" and "Genius Squad".
  • Ponnala Lakshmaiah said that the Ponnala Foundation started by him would give away awards to mathematics genius every year in memory of the Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, in order to promote the subject among children.
  • McCreery’s most recent book is a study of the psychology of genius, with particular reference to the economic conditions which have favoured the development of genius in the historical past, notably the role of private patronage.
  • advanced the hypothesis that Semo Sancus is the 'genius' of Jupiter.
  • Prime Minister Imran Khan called him "a genius, one of the greatest leg spinners of all time", adding that "Qadir's bowling statistics do not do justice to his genius".

  • Kroeber found that genius never appeared in isolation, but rather, in Simonton's words, that “one genius cluster(ed) with others of greater and lesser fame in adjacent generations”.
  • On the "Levels of intelligence and Genius"-scale, 5th level is ordinary genius and level 6 is super genius.
  • The poem also discusses Burke's genius and believes that Burke was intelligent but wrong.
  • The title refers to the daimon of Socrates; as the Latin equivalent of this term is "genius", it is often rendered as "On the Genius of Socrates".
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