genre
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
Fine Arts.
paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
genus; kind; sort; style.
Fine Arts. of or relating to genre.
of or relating to a distinctive literary type.
Origin of genre
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use genre in a sentence
I listened to more than 900 new releases during 2014—all styles, all genres.
Like the best pop stars, Swift has borrowed from a plethora of genres and influences.
Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’: Country’s Prodigal Daughter Creates the Best Pop Album of the Year | Marlow Stern | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHow do you court younger readers and keep your older audience when they may be into two different genres?
It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine | Alex Suskind | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe this time women in different genres will wise up to this and present a more united front.
Beyoncé Is Our Indigo Girl: The Halcyon '90s and Feminism's Resurgence in Pop Music | Amanda Marcotte | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe are left with stalwart genres (action, rom com) and classic roles (prude, seductress, jock, backstory-less best friend).
A still more important work, also part of the Encyclopedia, and continually quoted by botanists, is the 'Illustration des Genres.'
Evolution, Old & New | Samuel ButlerM. Brunetire spoke with ingenious boldness of the evolution of the genres.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de GourmontOne of the excuses made by writers who do not know how to write, is the diversity of genres.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de GourmontMais le prix de tout les genres de main d'œuvre ayant aussi augment de moitie—cela revient au meme—et la compensation se retablit.
Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 | Archibald AlisonJust as several genres form a phratry so in the classical form several phratries form a tribe.
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State | Frederick Engels
British Dictionary definitions for genre
/ (ˈʒɑːnrə) /
kind, category, or sort, esp of literary or artistic work
(as modifier): genre fiction
a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
Origin of genre
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for genre
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