genre
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.
paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
genus; kind; sort; style.
Fine Arts. of or relating to genre.
of or relating to a distinctive literary type.
Origin of genre
1Words Nearby genre
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How to use genre in a sentence
In recent years, “lo-fi chill” and other forms of “focus music” have become so popular that there are now multiple YouTube channels devoted to the genre.
People who really miss the office are listening to its sounds at home | Tanya Basu | September 10, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThroughout the process, Thio worked with lo-fi producers to curate bass lines, drum lines, and background ambience that exemplify the genre and sound good.
Create your own moody quarantine music with Google’s AI | Karen Hao | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewStell is a rapidly rising artist in the electronic and dance scene, though his songs don’t fit neatly in the genre.
Studios with a very focused portfolio around a specific genre — Viker’s core focus is social casino-type games — may benefit from advertisers who shift to more broad-based, contextual targeting, he added.
‘Speeding up market consolidation’: Apple’s privacy changes expected to spark wave of gaming and ad tech M&A | Lara O'Reilly | September 3, 2020 | DigidayThe genre-bender is well-cast and suspenseful, and the cliffhanger ending suggests there’s more to come.
Stream or Skip? A Synthetic Biologist’s Review of ‘Biohackers’ on Netflix | Elsa Sotiriadis | September 2, 2020 | Singularity Hub
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
‘Empire’ Review: Hip-Hop Musical Chairs with an Insane Soap Opera Twist | Judnick Mayard | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTA lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPhonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.
Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThey live in Stockholm, where she paints portraits and genre subjects.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementOccasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementUnfortunately, the art of genre painting did not exist in those days, and that of engraving was in its infancy.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de BalzacTout le monde sait que l'Allemagne possede en ce genre des trsors qui ont t jusqu'ici comme enfouis pour la France.
Baron d'Holbach | Max Pearson Cushing
British Dictionary definitions for genre
/ (ˈʒɑːnrə) /
kind, category, or sort, esp of literary or artistic work
(as modifier): genre fiction
a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
Origin of genre
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for genre
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