About The Word Genre
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Genre
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What's The Definition Of Genre?
[n] a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
[n] a kind of literary or artistic work [n] an expressive style of music [n] a style of expressing yourself in writing Synonyms | Synonyms for Genre: literary genre | music genre | musical genre | musical style | writing style Related Terms | Find terms related to Genre: aesthetic form | archetype | art form | blood | brand | breed | build | cast | category | character | clan | class | color | configuration | conformation | cut | denomination | description | designation | fashion | feather | figuration | figure | form | format | formation | frame | genus | grain | ilk | impression | inner form | kidney | kin | kind | label | layout | line | lines | lot | make | makeup | manner | mark | matrix | modality | mode | model | mold | movement | nature | number | pattern | pencil | persuasion | phylum | Platonic form | Platonic idea | prototype | race | school | set | shape | significant form | sort | species | stamp | strain | stripe | structure | style | the grand style | the like of | the likes of | tribe | turn | type | variety See Also | abstract art | abstractionism | African-American music | art | black music | chinoiserie | church music | classical music | drama | expressive style | fine art | folk art | form | form | genre painting | kind | landscape | landscape painting | magic realism | march | marching music | modernism | music | poesy | poetry | pointilism | popular music | popular music genre | postmodernism | primitivism | prose | religious music | serious music | sort | style | synthetism | variety | verse Genre In Webster's Dictionary \Genre\ (zh[aum]N"r'), n. [F. See {Gender}.] (Fine Arts)
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which
illustrates everyday life and manners.
\Gen"re\, n. Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature. French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born. --Saintsbury. A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature. --W. P. Trent. |
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