genre
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos)). Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.
Pronunciation
Noun
genre (plural genres)
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
- The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
- This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
- The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
- 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
- One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
Synonyms
- kind
- type
- class
- See also Thesaurus:class
Derived terms
- dramatic genre
- film genre
- genre fiction
- genre film
- genre studies
- genre-bending
- genre-busting
- genre-savvy
- literary genre
- macrogenre
- microgenre
- pre-genre
- subgenre
- theatrical genre
Translations
kind; type; sort
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Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɕɑŋʁɐ]
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʒɑn.rə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: gen‧re
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡenre/, [ˈɡe̞nre̞]
- Rhymes: -enre
- Syllabification(key): gen‧re
Declension
| Inflection of genre (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | genre | genret | ||
| genitive | genren | genrejen | ||
| partitive | genreä | genrejä | ||
| illative | genreen | genreihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | genre | genret | ||
| accusative | nom. | genre | genret | |
| gen. | genren | |||
| genitive | genren | genrejen genreinrare | ||
| partitive | genreä | genrejä | ||
| inessive | genressä | genreissä | ||
| elative | genrestä | genreistä | ||
| illative | genreen | genreihin | ||
| adessive | genrellä | genreillä | ||
| ablative | genreltä | genreiltä | ||
| allative | genrelle | genreille | ||
| essive | genrenä | genreinä | ||
| translative | genreksi | genreiksi | ||
| instructive | — | genrein | ||
| abessive | genrettä | genreittä | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
French
Etymology
From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis). Cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃ʁ/, (colloquial) /ʒɔʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (file) - Homophone: genres
- Hyphenation: genre
Noun
genre m (plural genres)
- kind
- Le genre humain.
- The human race
- style
- Le genre dramatique.
- The dramatic genre
- (grammar) gender (of nouns)
- Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.
- French words are either masculine or feminine.
- (grammar) voice (of verbs)
- 1742, Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page 52:
- Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : Le Genre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinq Genres de Verbes Personnels: l'Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.
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- gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)
- Mon genre est non-binaire.
- My gender is non-binary.
- (biology) genus
- Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.
- Any living or extinct species has a genus, according to the binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl von Linné.
- look, type
- Il essaie de se donner un genre.
- He tries to give himself a look.
- (archaic, colloquial) the done thing
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “genre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.
Norman
Etymology
From Latin genus, generis. Compare Ancient Greek γένος (génos)).
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)
- alternative spelling of sjanger
References
- “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /¹ɧaŋɛɾ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛr
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