Genre - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈʒɑːnrə|
Brit.
|ˈʒɒnrə|
noun
- a kind of literary or artistic work
- a style of expressing yourself in writing
- an expressive style of music
- a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
- a style of expressing yourself in writing
- an expressive style of music
- a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
Extra examples
This book is a classic of the mystery genre.
...the novel's hero is of a different genre than the traditional kind...
...the movie's opening-weekend gross was fairly concordant with box-office returns for that genre...
In the mid-Eighties, heavy-metal music was the incendiary genre being demonized ...
The group epitomized the genre.
Agatha Christie was the queen of the detective genre.
As a writer, I find the drama genre to be very limiting.
Word forms
noun
singular: genre
plural: genres
singular: genre
plural: genres
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