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Gene

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒiːn//

A unisex given name. A diminutive of the male given name Eugene, also used as a formal male given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A unisex given name. A diminutive of the male given name Eugene, also used as a formal male given name.

  2. 2

    A unisex given name. A female given name, used as a formal female given name. A diminutive of the female given name Genevieve

  3. 3

    A unisex given name. A female given name, used as a formal female given name. A diminutive of the female given name Eugenia

  4. 4

    A surname

Forms

plural
Genes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).