genre

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos)). Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɑn.ɹə/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɒn.ɹə/

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• (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑnɚ/

genre (plural genres)

1. 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.

• kind
• type
• class
• See also Thesaurus:class

• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen

From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɕɑŋʁɐ]

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Borrowed from French genre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.rə/

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• Hyphenation: gen‧re

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

• enger, neger, regen

From French genre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡenre/, [ˈɡe̞nre̞]
• Rhymes: -enre
• Syllabification^(key): gen‧re

genre

1. genre

• lajityyppi

From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis). Cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃ʁ/, (colloquial) /ʒɔʁ/

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• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

genre m (plural genres)

1. kind

   Le genre humain.

   The human race

2. style

   Le genre dramatique.

   The dramatic genre

3. (grammar) gender (of nouns)

   Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.

   French words are either masculine or feminine.

4. (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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5. 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.

6. (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.

7. look, type

   Il essaie de se donner un genre.

   He tries to give himself a look.

8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

• BCBG, bon chic bon genre
• cisgenre, transgenre
• en tous genres
• en tout genre
• études de genre
• faire genre
• faire mauvais genre
• genre humain
• unique en son genre

• → English: genre
• → Franco-Provençal: janro
• → Macedonian: жанр (žanr)
• → Persian: ژانر‎ (žânr)
• → Russian: жанр (žanr)
  • → Kazakh: жанр (janr)
  • → Turkmen: žanr
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: жанр
  • Latin: žanr
• → Ukrainian: жанр (žanr)

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement énervé.

   I'm like rarely annoyed.

• “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.

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

From Latin genus, generis. Compare Ancient Greek γένος (génos)).

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

From French genre.

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

• “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French genre.

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French genre.

• IPA^(key): /¹ɧaŋɛɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛr

genre c

1. a genre

• gener, green, neger