genuine

CEFRB2

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.ɪn/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Is the painting a genuine Picasso?
a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.

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[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.
1906, Violet Tweedale, Lady Sarah's Son, page 141
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
1981 May 31, Robert Palmer, “Two Icons of Rock Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023

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From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.