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How to pronounce genre in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms literary genre, writing style
Type of style, expressive style
Has types poesy, form, drama, verse, prose, poetry
Type Words
Synonyms music genre, musical genre, musical style
Type of style, expressive style, music
Has types marching music, african-american music, black music, church music, classical, classical music, march, popular music, popular music genre, religious music, serious music
Type Words
Type of fine art, art
Has types abstractionism, chinoiserie, postmodernism, primitive art, primitivism, self-taught art, vernacular art, outsider art, pointillism, synthetism, genre painting, landscape, landscape painting, magic realism, abstract art, modernism, naive art, folk art
Type Words
Type of kind, sort, form, variety

Examples of genre

genre
I'm thinking about coining a new phrase to describe a particular film sub-genre.
From the theatlantic.com
This software analyses videos for certain characteristics such as genre or mood.
From the sciencedaily.com
The music game may be dead, but the dancing game genre is breeding like rabbits.
From the metro.co.uk
It's a romantic comedy from a bloke's perspective, which is unique in the genre.
From the cairns.com.au
It must be burdensome to carry the weight of a musical genre on one's shoulders.
From the post-gazette.com
Your article lists many of the people who have credits in the horror film genre.
From the latimes.com
Kleinman and Wexler are a good team, offering a unique take on a familiar genre.
From the sfgate.com
If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best.
From the time.com
Rothschild thinks transitioning to a new genre would be Miley's wisest strategy.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • A kind of literary or artistic work
  • Writing style: a style of expressing yourself in writing
  • Music genre: an expressive style of music
  • A class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
  • Genre (/u02C8u0292u0252u0303ru0259/, /u02C8u0292u0252nru0259/ or /u02C8du0292u0252nru0259/; from French genre , "kind" or "sort", from Latin genus (stem gener-), Greek u03B3u03ADu03BDu03BFu03C2, gu00E9s) is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria...
  • Genre is a 1996 Live-action/animated short film by animator Don Hertzfeldt, his second student film, preceded by Ah, L'Amour (1995).
  • Video game genres are used to categorize video games based on their gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges. ...
  • A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult, or children's. ...
  • Genre magazine was a New York city-based monthly periodical written for gay men. It was owned by gay press publisher Window Media, a subsidiary of Avalon Equity Partners.