genre

n. type, style, kind, category

For the gay men's lifestyle magazine, see Genre (magazine). A genre [], (French: "kind" or "sort" from Greek: γένος (genos)) is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance. In all art forms, genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. The scope of the word "genre" is sometimes confined to art and culture, particularly literature, but it has a long history in rhetoric as well. In genre studies the concept of genre is not compared to originality. Rather, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
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Noun
1. a kind of literary or artistic work
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety
2. a style of expressing yourself in writing
(synonym) writing style, literary genre
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) drama
3. an expressive style of music
(synonym) music genre, musical genre, musical style
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) black music, African-American music
(class) crossover
4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
(hypernym) art, fine art
(hyponym) abstractionism, abstract art

n. genre, type, style, kind, category

n. kind, sort, type, genre; nature, form; style, class, description; gender; manner, strain