genuine article
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An authentic thing, as opposed to an imitation.
Example Sentences
- "“Coffee” might be largely sawdust, or wheat, beans, beets, peas, and dandelion seeds, scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article."
- ""Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article," Joshua Goldbard said."
- "“I think he's an extraordinary man [Dario Amodei], the real genuine article,” he [Michael Moritz] tells me."
Inflected Forms
the genuine article (canonical)
genuine articles (plural)