gen·re (zhän r )n. 1. A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent" (Helen Kitchen). 2. a. 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). b. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life. [French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-; see gen - in Indo-European roots.] |
genre [ˈʒɑːnrə]
n
1.
a. kind, category, or sort, esp of literary or artistic work
b. (as modifier) genre fiction
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
[from French, from Old French gendre; see gender]
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| Noun | 1. | genre - a kind of literary or artistic work |
| 2. | genre - a style of expressing yourself in writing drama - the literary genre of works intended for the theater prose - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" form - an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" | |
| 3. |  genre - an expressive style of music music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner African-American music, black music - music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses classical, classical music, serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste crossover - the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience; "a jazz-classical crossover album" church music, religious music - genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies marching music, march - genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best marches" popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" | |
| 4. | genre - a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique abstract art, abstractionism - an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation art, fine art - the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" chinoiserie - a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned folk art - genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society genre painting - a genre depicting everyday life landscape painting, landscape - a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery magic realism - a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams modernism - genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres naive art, outsider art, primitive art, self-taught art, vernacular art - a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists pointillism - a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France postmodernism - genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism primitivism - a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children synthetism - a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas |
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