Meanings
plural genres
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
3 more examples
The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
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.
2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38
present singular third person genres · participle present genring · participle present genreing · participle past genred · past genred
- To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna style of expressing yourself in writing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latingenere
- Old Frenchgen(d)re
- Frenchgenre
- Englishgenre
Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
More words from French, Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans genre
- genrekind; type; sort
Arabic نَوْع فَنِّيّ, نَوْع أَدَبِيّ
- نَوْع فَنِّيّ (nawʕ fanniyy)kind; type; sort
- نَوْع أَدَبِيّ (nawʕ ʔadabiyy)kind; type; sort
- نَوْع (nawʕ)kind; type; sort
Bulgarian жанр, вид
- жанр (žanr)kind; type; sort
- вид (vid)kind; type; sort
Catalan gènere
- gènerekind; type; sort
Chinese Mandarin 風格 /风格, 類型 /类型
- 風格 /风格 (fēnggé)kind; type; sort
- 類型 /类型 (lèixíng)kind; type; sort
Czech žánr
- žánrkind; type; sort
Danish genre
- genrekind; type; sort
Dutch genre
- genrekind; type; sort
Esperanto ĝenro
- ĝenrokind; type; sort
Estonian žanr
- žanrkind; type; sort
Finnish lajityyppi, genre
- lajityyppikind; type; sort
- genrekind; type; sort
- tyylilajikind; type; sort
- lajikind; type; sort
French genre
- genrekind; type; sort
German Genre, Gattung
- Genrekind; type; sort
- Gattungkind; type; sort
Greek ύφος
- ύφος (ýfos)kind; type; sort
Hebrew זָ׳נֶר \ ז׳אנר
- זָ׳נֶר \ ז׳אנר (zháner)kind; type; sort
Hindi विधा
- विधा (vidhā)kind; type; sort
Hungarian műfaj, zsáner
- műfajkind; type; sort
- zsánerkind; type; sort
Irish seánra
- seánrakind; type; sort
Italian genere
- generekind; type; sort
Japanese ジャンル
- ジャンル (janru)kind; type; sort
Korean 장르
- 장르 (jangneu)kind; type; sort
Latin genus
- genuskind; type; sort
Latvian žanrs
- žanrskind; type; sort
Lithuanian žanras
- žanraskind; type; sort
Malay genre
- genrekind; type; sort
Māori momotuhinga, kātū
- momotuhingakind; type; sort
- kātūkind; type; sort
Norwegian Bokmål sjanger, genre
- sjangerkind; type; sort
- genrekind; type; sort
Persian ژانر
- ژانر (žânr)kind; type; sort
Polish gatunek
- gatunekkind; type; sort
Portuguese gênero, género
- gênerokind; type; sort
- génerokind; type; sort
Romanian gen
- genkind; type; sort
Russian жанр
- жанр (žanr)kind; type; sort
Slovak žáner
- žánerkind; type; sort
Spanish género
- génerokind; type; sort
Swedish genre
- genrekind; type; sort
Thai ประเภท, แนว
- ประเภท (bprà-pêet)kind; type; sort
- แนว (nɛɛo)kind; type; sort
Ukrainian жанр
- жанр (žanr)kind; type; sort
Yiddish זשאַנער
- זשאַנער (zhaner)kind; type; sort
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Cite this entry
genre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre
“genre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genre,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genre.
Source: genre on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.