genre
pronunciation
How to pronounce genre in British English:
UK [ˈʒɒ̃rə , ˈʒɒnrə]
How to pronounce genre in American English:
US [ˈʒɑːnrə]
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- Noun:
- a kind of literary or artistic work
- a style of expressing yourself in writing
- an expressive style of music
- a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
Word Origin
- genre
- genre: see general
- genre (n.)
- 1770, "particular style of art," a French word in English (nativized from c. 1840), from French genre "kind, sort, style" (see gender (n.)). Used especially in French for "independent style." In painting, as an adjective, "depicting scenes of ordinary life" (a domestic interior or village scene, as compared to landscape, historical, etc.) from 1849.
Example
- 1. The success story is a standard of the genre .
- 2. Voters today prefer victorian houses . Science fiction has collapsed as a literary genre .
- 3. Digital best-seller lists are dominated in particular by genre novels , like thrillers and romances .
- 4. That is , was tolkien simply drawing out what is already there in the genre ?
- 5. What 's the appeal of the genre for you ?