type, style, kind, category
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Genre Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
genre
\gen"re\ (?), n. kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature. french drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great french genre of the fabliau was hardly born. a particular demand that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature. p. trent.
genre
\genre\ (zh?n"r'), n. [f. see gender.] (fine arts) a style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
genre
n
1. a kind of literary or artistic work
2. a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style , literary genre]
3. an expressive style of music [syn: music genre, musical genre , musical style]
4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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music genre
literary genre
Noun
1. a kind of literary or artistic work
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety
2. a style of expressing yourself in writing
(synonym) writing style, literary genre
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) drama
3. an expressive style of music
(synonym) music genre, musical genre, musical style
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) black music, African-American music
(class) crossover
4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
(hypernym) art, fine art
(hyponym) abstractionism, abstract art
Genre Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Genre ( or ; from French, genre , "kind" or "sort", from Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.
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Genre Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
