Genre

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content.
  • noun. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.
  • noun. A type or class.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Genus; kind; sort; style.
  • noun. In painting, specifically, a representation of some phase of common life, as a domestic interior, a rural or village scene, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.
  • noun. A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a kind of literary or artistic work
  • noun. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
  • noun. a style of expressing yourself in writing
  • noun. an expressive style of music
  • Word Usage
    "The great gestures, the large-scale maps, the grand manner are for history and epic, but genre for the novel -- and what _genre_ is so momentous to it as the human?"
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