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.
2.
Fine Arts.
a.
paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
b.
a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent"(Helen Kitchen).
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).
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.]
[zhahn-ruh; Fr. zhahn-ruh ] 
noun, plural -res 
z; Fr. -ruh ]