noun,pluralgen·res[zhahn-ruhz; Frenchzhahn-ruh]. /ˈʒɑn rəz; French ˈʒɑ̃ rə/.
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.
adjective
Fine Arts. of or relating to genre.
of or relating to a distinctive literary type.
Origin of genre
1760–70; <French: kind, sort; see gender1
Words nearby genre
genotoxin, genotype, -genous, Genova, gen pop, genre, genre-busting, genro, Genroku, gens, gens du monde
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 Review
Throughout 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 Review
Stell is a rapidly rising artist in the electronic and dance scene, though his songs don’t fit neatly in the genre.
Why Big Wild's Songs Feel Like Adventures|Outside Editors|September 3, 2020|Outside Online
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|Digiday
The 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|DAILY BEAST
I 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|DAILY BEAST
You 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|DAILY BEAST
Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pryor played with the edges of every genre that he took up; that was a big part of the energy of his performances.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America|David Yaffe, Scott Saul|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The same absence, in general, of a national spirit is to be noticed in the works of the genre painters.
English Painters|Harry John Wilmot-Buxton
It is therefore astonishing that this opera has pleased so much, as this genre is never much liked.
Louis Spohr's Autobiography|Louis Spohr
It is in his genre work that the broad manner is mostly observable, and only very occasionally is it to be found in his portraits.
Art Principles|Ernest Govett
Fountains were adorned also with genre groups and animal forms.
Pompeii, Its Life and Art|August Mau
The story of plot may be easy to recognize as a genre, but not all stories of plot are potential short stories.
The Technique of Fiction Writing|Robert Saunders Dowst
British Dictionary definitions for genre
genre
/ (ˈʒɑːnrə) /
noun
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
Word Origin for genre
C19: from French, from Old French gendre; see gender
Did You Know You Were Reading These Unusual Literary Genres?From chivalrous Chinese heroes to the truly surreal, these offbeat literary genres offer exactly that—ways off the beaten path of well-known literature.
The kind or type of a work of art, from the French, meaning “kind” or “genus.” Literary genres include the novel and the sonnet. Musical genres include the concerto and the symphony. Film genres include Westerns and horror movies.