genre
noun
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like.
genres
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pluralof genre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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More than other literary genres, the short story is produced to meet a ready market—or it once was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Afrobeats just keeps evolving, it keeps growing and it just keeps getting better... I want it to be one of the top genres in the world."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
She explains how trans women DJs are at the forefront of new genres of heavy, beat-driven electronic music in the underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The box-office failure of “Digger” over the weekend shows how hard it remains for movie studios to pack theaters with original films in genres other than horror, Ben Fritz notes for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
He’d collected hundreds of chess magazines in five or six languages, and all genres of chess books, the majority of which were sent to him by his mother.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
