Genre

Definitions: Genre

Genre

Noun

1. A kind of literary or artistic work.

2. A style of expressing yourself in writing.

3. An expressive style of music.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "genre" was first used: 1816. (references)

Archeological

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Synonyms: Genre

Painting

School, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art.

Crosswords: Genre

Afrikaan (genre), Dutch (genre), French (class, classification, description, form, gender, genre, genus, grain, kidney, kind, manner, nature, sort, strain, stripe, style, type, wise), German (genre), Occitan (gender), Swedish (genre, vein).

I'm not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of the rock and roll. (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

This particular illustration of this genre is called The Masochism Tango. ("The Masochism Tango"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Drôle de genre (2003)

Genre (1996)

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Books

• American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (reference)

• Christian Fiction: A Guide to the Genre (Genreflecting Advisory Series, 6th Ed) (reference)

• Genre Analysis : English in Academic and Research Settings (reference)

• How to Write Horror Fiction (Writer's Digest Genre Writing Series) (reference)

• The Western Genre (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Genre Magazine (reference)

• Travail Genre Et Societe (reference)

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High Tech

• TDK MOJO Portable CD-MP3 Digital Jukebox with 8 Minute Anti-Shock and Artist, Title, Genre, and Album Directory (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

If only one pair of siphonal tufts, or hairs is present, the specimen is classified as a member of one of three possible genre, Aedes, Uranotaenia or Psorophora.Credit: CDC.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "genre": art genre ♦ genre painting ♦ genre picture ♦ literary genre ♦ music genre ♦ musical genre ♦ popular music genre. Additional references.

Beginning with "genre": genre-based, genre-bender, genre-hopping, genre-markers, genre-pictures, genre-pieces, genre-specific, genre-stomping.

Ending with "genre": sub-genre.

Afrikaan

genre. (various references)

Albanian

gjini (cognation, filiation, gender, genus, kindred, relationship, sex), xhanrë, stil (class, cut, fashion, hand, make, manner, panache, pattern, style), lloj (assortment, brand, brood, cast, class, description, form, kidney, kind, nature, persuasion, race, rate, shape, sort, species, stamp, stock, style, type, variety). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نوع أدبي, ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, flair, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, phraseology, regimen, sort, strain, style, stylization, technique, tone), ‏رسوم (toll, tolls). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стил (character, fashion, form, manner, mode, order, pattern, pencil, penmanship, style, turn, writing), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), жанрова живопис, жанр, битова живопис. (various references)

Chinese 

风� �. (various references)

Czech

styl (stroke, style, touch). (various references)

Dutch

genrestuk, genre. (various references)

Esperanto

ĝenro. (various references)

Finnish

tapainkuvaus. (various references)

French

genre (gender, genus). (various references)

German

genre, gattung (breed, genus, kind, sort, species, tribe, type). (various references)

Greek 

ύφοσ (air, look, mien, style), στυλ (style), ζωγραφική καθημερινήσ, είδοσ (article, brand, character, commodity, item, kind, line, sort, species, specimen, variety, ware). (various references)

Hebrew 

ז'א� ר, ס�'� ון (banner, ensign, mode, style, stylization, type). (various references)

Hungarian

zsáner. (various references)

Indonesian

aliran (CONDUIT, current, drift, flow, ism, PIPELINE, stream, TREND, WIRING). (various references)

Italian

genere (article, cast, class, description, family, famine, gender, genus, goods, ilk, kind, product, sort, species, stem, type). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ジャンプ競技 (deuce, dugong, jamboree, jewel, jewelry, joule, Juglar cycle, juice, juicer, juju music, juke-box, jumbo, jumbo-jet, jumbo-size, June bride, junior, junior welter, ski jumping, soft drink). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ジャンル . (various references)

Pig Latin

enregay

Portuguese

gênero (clan, description, ethnic group, gender, genus, kind, line, manner, race, sort, tribe). (various references)

Romanian

gen literar. (various references)

Russian 

жанр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

žanrski, žanr (style, type). (various references)

Spanish

género (cloth, description, gender, genus, kind, nature, sort, type). (various references)

Swedish

stil (chic, dash, diction, fineness, flair, hand writing, manner, panache, print, style, tone, touch, vein), genre (vein). (various references)

Turkish

tarz (angle, brand, fashion, form, manner, method, modality, mode, modus, school, stroke, style, way), tür (breed, class, genus, ilk, kind, persuasion, race, sort, sort of, species, strain, stripe, type, variety), biçim (cast, configuration, conformation, face, fashion, figuration, form, format, guise, make, mode, morpho-, semblance, shape, style), üslup (fashion, mode, strong language, touch, wording), çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, ilk, item, kind, range, sample, sort, species, stripe, style, variety). (various references)

Turkmen 

Јanr (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

стиль (form, language, manner, style, writing), манера (address, fashion, hang, manner, mannerism, mode, style), літературний жанр. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thể loại, loại (design, eliminatory, grade, kidney, order, sort). (various references)

genre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "genre": genres. (additional references)

Words ending with "genre": subgenre. (additional references)

Words containing "genre": subgenres. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Genre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Egner, enri, Fenra, ganra, ganre, ganrif, garne, geehrter, genae, Genbel, Gence, gende, gendre, Gendron, Geneen, Genel, gener, genere, genery, geney, Gennoe, genra, Genrad, genrel, genro, gente, gentem, gentra, genue, Genzen, Gern, gerna, gerne, gernie, Gevrey, geyre, gienke, Glenroy, Goerner, grere, guere, gunry, Gwernog, gymnure, Jencra, ogener, Ogyebre, Penre, tenre. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: green.

-1 letter: eger, erne, gene, gree.

-2 letters: eng, ere, erg, ern, gee, gen, nee, ree, reg.

-3 letters: en, er, ne, re.

+1 letter: energy, enrage, gender, genera, genres, gerent, germen, greens, greeny, gyrene, regent, renege.

+2 letters: angered, avenger, derange, dreeing, energid, engager, engorge, engrave, enlarge, enraged, enrages, epergne, erelong, feigner, freeing, genders, general, generic, gentler, gerents, gerenuk, germane, germens, gleaner, grandee, grantee, greaten, greeing, greened, greener, greenie, greenly, greenth, greisen, grenade, greyhen, gyrenes, integer, jeering, kerogen, leering, negater, peering, preeing, reagent, rebegan, rebegin, rebegun, reeding, reefing, reeking, reeling, reeving, regency, regents, regimen, reginae, regiven, regreen, rehinge, reigned, reneged, reneger, reneges, revenge, treeing, uneager, veering.

+3 letters: agreeing, algerine, allergen, anergies, avengers, bargemen, befinger, befringe, beginner, beringed, breeding, breezing, carageen, cheering, congener, converge, creeling, creeping, dangered, deranged, deranges, deringer, designer, dungaree, eloigner, emergent, emerging, endanger, energids, energies, energise, energize, engagers, engender, engineer, enginery, engirded, engirdle, engorged, engorges, engramme, engraved, engraver, engraves, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, entering, epergnes, erecting, erigeron, eringoes, erogenic, eryngoes, estrange, estrogen, everting, exerting, expunger, feigners, fevering, fingered, fingerer, fleering, foregone, freezing, gadarene, gandered, gangrene, gardened, gardener, garnered, gendarme, gendered, generals, generate, generics, generous, geniture, gentrice, gentries, gerenuks, gesneria, gingered, gleaners, goldener, governed, grandees, grantees, gratinee, greatens, greenbug, greenery, greenest, greenfly, greenier, greenies, greening, greenish, greenlet, greenths, greenway, greeting, greisens, grenades, greyhens, greyness, guernsey, hungered, integers, interage, kerogens, legendry, levering, lingered, lingerer, lingerie, merengue, mergence, meringue, metering, mongered, negaters, nongreen, peregrin, perigean, petering, preening, pureeing, queering, razeeing, reagents, rebegins, receding, rechange, redesign, redyeing, reedings, reedling, reengage, reesting, regained, regainer, regental, regimens, regiment, regreens, reguline, rehanged, rehinged, rehinges, reignite, rekeying, renegade, renegado, renegers, reneging, renewing, renigged, replunge, repugned, reseeing, resewing, resigned, resigner, reveling, revenged, revenger, revenges, revering, roentgen, sangaree, seigneur, sergeant, severing, sewering, shagreen, sheering, sneering, speering, steering, subgenre, teenager, underage, ungreedy, vergence.

+4 letters: agentries, agreement, algerines, allergens, angerless, argentine, argentite, aubergine, augmenter, beavering, befingers, befringed, befringes, beginners, begroaned, bereaving, bettering, bigeneric, boogermen, breeching, breedings, breveting, burgeoned, carageens, careening, careering, carrageen, centering, clergymen, concierge, congeners, congeries, converged, converges, creeshing, creneling, decerning, decreeing, deferring, degerming, demerging, denigrate, deperming, deraigned, deringers, derringer, deserting, deserving, designers, detergent, deterging, deterring, divergent, dungarees, eagerness, egressing, egression, eloigners, embrangle, emergence, emergency, emergents, encourage, endangers, endearing, endoergic, energetic, energised, energises, energized, energizer, energizes, engenders, engineers, engirdled, engirdles, engrafted, engrailed, engrained, engrammes, engravers, engrossed, engrosser, engrosses, enlargers, enserfing, entangler, entourage, erigerons, erogenous, estranged, estranger, estranges, estrogens, evergreen, exchanger, excreting, exergonic, experting, expungers, exserting, farseeing, fenugreek, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fingerers, foreigner, gaberdine, gangrened, gangrenes, garagemen, gardeners, garmented, garnishee, gendarmes, gendering, generable, generally, generated, generates, generator, genitures, genteeler, gentrices, geomancer, germander, germanely, germanize, germinate, gerundive, gesneriad, gettering, glandered, glycerine, governess, grapevine, gratineed, gratinees, graveness, greatened, greatness, greenback, greenbelt, greenbugs, greengage, greenhead, greenhorn, greeniest, greenings, greenlets, greenling, greenmail, greenness, greenroom, greensand, greensick, greenways, greenwing, greenwood, greetings, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, guarantee, guerdoned, guernseys, gunneries, habergeon, impregned, ingresses, inselberg, integrate, inveigher, inveigler, jeeringly, kerneling, largeness, laveering, lechering, leeringly, legendary, lengthier, lettering, lightener, lingerers, lingeries, lorgnette, margented, menagerie, merengues, merganser, mergences, meringues, messenger, neglecter, negritude, neutering, nondegree, nonenergy, orangeade, orangerie, organelle, orogenies, parentage, passenger, peltering, peppering, peregrine, peregrins, personage, pestering, preceding, pregnable, progenies, realigned, rearrange, rebelling, receiving, recessing, rechanged, rechanges, rechewing, recognise, recognize, recoinage, rectangle, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redingote, reearning, reechoing, reediting, reedlings, reengaged, reengages, reengrave, reevoking, refecting, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, reflexing, refueling, refulgent, regainers, regearing, regencies, regiments, regranted, regreened, rehearing, reheating, reheeling, rehemming, reignited, reignites, reimagine, rejecting, releasing, relending, relenting, reletting, relieving, remedying, remeeting, remelting, remending, remerging, rendering, renegaded, renegades, renegados, renesting, reopening, repealing, repeating, repegging, repelling, repenting, reperking, replunged, replunges, rereading, resealing, reseating, resecting, reseeding, reseeking, reseizing, reselling, resending, resenting, reserving, resetting, reshingle, reshoeing, resigners, resurgent, reteaming, retearing, retelling, retesting, retighten, revealing, revelling, revengers, revenging, reverbing, reversing, reverting, revesting, revetting, reviewing, reweaving, rewedding, rewelding, rewetting, ridgeline, roentgens, roughened, sangarees, scavenger, screeding, screening, secerning, secreting, segregant, seigneurs, seigneury, sergeancy, sergeants, sergeanty, shagreens, skewering, sloganeer, sniggered, sniggerer, sovereign, speerings, stereoing, stingaree, streeking, streeling, subgenera, subgenres, supergene, synergies, tangerine, teenagers, teetering, telfering, tempering, tendering, tentering, teratogen, tethering, threeping, tightener, unaverage, underages, undergoes, undergone, unfreeing, unreeling, unreeving, urgencies, veeringly, veneering, vergences, vignetter, vinegared, weltering, westering.

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