GENRE
What does "GENRE" mean?
A category of artistic work marked by a shared style, form, or subject.
Meanings
- A class or type of literature, film, music, or art defined by conventions of style or content. Horror is the genre she writes in, but she keeps breaking its rules.
- In painting, scenes of ordinary domestic or everyday life ('genre painting'). The Dutch masters elevated the humble kitchen into genre painting. technical
Did you know?
- 'Genre', 'gender', 'genus', and 'general' are all the same Latin word in disguise - 'genus', meaning kind or category - branched into separate English meanings.
Word origin
Borrowed unchanged from French 'genre' (kind, sort), from Latin 'genus' (birth, kind, class) - the same root behind 'gender' and 'genus'.
Remember it
GENRE keeps its French face: say 'ZHON-ruh', and remember the silent kinship with GENUS, its Latin parent.
A little poem
We sort the songs into their tidy bins-
then someone plays a chord that fits no shelf
and a new genre is quietly born.
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Wordplay
- My band can't agree on our genre. We finally settled on 'experimental', which means we don't know either.
What it teaches
Categories are useful maps, not borders; the best work always smuggles something across the line.
Quick facts
What does GENRE mean?
A category of artistic work marked by a shared style, form, or subject.
Is GENRE a valid word?
Yes — GENRE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GENRE?
GENRE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does GENRE come from?
Borrowed unchanged from French 'genre' (kind, sort), from Latin 'genus' (birth, kind, class) - the same root behind 'gender' and 'genus'.
What can GENRE teach us?
Categories are useful maps, not borders; the best work always smuggles something across the line.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.