- a particular type or style of literature, art, film or music that you can recognize because of its special features
- literary/musical genres
- the horror/action/fantasy genre
- Crime fiction is a genre which seems likely to stay with us for many years.
- genre fiction
Extra ExamplesTopics Film and theatreb2- The film is generally regarded as a classic of the genre.
- His films cover a wide range of subjects and genres.
- She must be the most influential modern writer in the genre.
- The band is not representative of any particular musical genre.
- He has explored a range of musical genres.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGenre is used before these nouns:- fiction
- painter
- painting
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: French, literally ‘a kind’, based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’.
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