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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Pronunciation
Noun
genre (plural genres)
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
- The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
- This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
- The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
- 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
- One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
Synonyms
- kind
- type
- class
- See also Thesaurus:class
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Related terms
Translations
kind; type; sort
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Verb
genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)
- To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genred.
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Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)
- genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features
Declension
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
genre n (plural genres)
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
genre
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Further reading
- “genre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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