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gen·re

Audio Help [zhahn-ruh; Fr. zhahn-r^uh] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -res

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z; Fr. -r^uh] Pronunciation Key, adjective

–noun

1.	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.

a.	paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.

b.	a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.

3.	genus; kind; sort; style.

–adjective

4.	Fine Arts. of or pertaining to genre.

5.	of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type.

[Origin: 1760–70; < F: kind, sort; see gender¹

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gen·re Audio Help (zhän'rə) Pronunciation Key
n.

A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent" (Helen Kitchen).
1. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: "his six String Quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's" (Time).
2. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

[French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
genre

1770, from Fr. genre "kind, sort, style," from O.Fr. (see gender). Used especially in Fr. for "independent style," as compared to "landscape, historical," etc.

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genre
noun
1.	a kind of literary or artistic work
2.	a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style]
3.	an expressive style of music [syn: music genre]
4.	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
genre [(zhahn-ruh)]

The kind or type of a work of art, from the French, meaning “kind” or “genus.” Literary genres include the novel and the sonnet. Musical genres include the concerto and the symphony. Film genres include Westerns and horror movies.

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English

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Genre

Gen"der\, n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F. genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.]

1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." --Shak.

2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. --R. Morris.

Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.

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Genre

Genre\ (zh[aum]N"r'), n. [F. See Gender.] (Fine Arts) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

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