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n. A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent” ( Helen Kitchen).

n. 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).

n. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

n. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

n. Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.

n. A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

n. Genus; kind; sort; style.

n. In painting, specifically, a representation of some phase of common life, as a domestic interior, a rural or village scene, etc.

n. a kind of literary or artistic work

n. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

n. a style of expressing yourself in writing

n. an expressive style of music

"The traditional meaning of the term genre has been distorted."

sort    form    kind    variety   

generate    gender    genre fiction    genus    general   

film genre    theatrical genre    literary genre    dramatic genre    sub-genre   

kind    genus    class    form    style    type   

fiction    novel    thriller    sf    movie    comedy    magazine    literature    epic    cinema