genre

English

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genre

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɑn.ɹə/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɒn.ɹə/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑnɚ/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

Translations

Verb

genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)

1. To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genred.

Anagrams

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

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

Declension

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

genre

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.rə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gen‧re

Noun

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

Anagrams

• enger, neger, regen

Finnish

Etymology

From French genre.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

genre

1. genre

Declension

Synonyms

• lajityyppi

Further reading

• “genre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

Noun

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

Derived terms

• 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

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: жанр (žanr)
• → Dalmatian: genro
• → English: genre
• → Norwegian: sjangre
• → Franco-Provençal: janro
• → Macedonian: жанр (žanr)
• → Persian: ژانر (žânr)
• → Russian: жанр (žanr)
  • → Kazakh: жанр (janr)
  • → Turkmen: žanr
  • → Uyghur: ژانىر (zhanir)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: жанр
  • Latin script: žanr
• → Ukrainian: жанр (žanr)

Particle

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement énervé.

   I'm like rarely annoyed.

Further reading

• “genre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.

Anagrams

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɧaŋɛr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -¹aŋɛr
• Hyphenation: gen‧re

Noun

genre c

1. a genre

Declension

Anagrams

• gener, green, neger