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-core

-core suffix: denoting a genre of music, especially one influenced by hardcore music.

Suffix

-core

  1. Denoting a genre of music, especially one influenced by hardcore music.
    • gloom + -core → gloomcore
    • metal + -core → metalcore
  2. (broadly) Denoting a genre, movement, subculture, or group.
    • maso(chist) + -core → masocore (“a genre of games where survival and winning are intentionally made extremely difficult”)
    • mumble + -core → mumblecore (“an American independent film movement or subgenre, characterised by low-budget production, etc.”)
  3. (Internet) Denoting an aesthetic or vibe.
    • cottage + -core → cottagecore
    • grandma + -core → grandmacore

Origin of -core

Back-formation from hardcore (“hardcore punk, a particularly fast and intense form of punk rock”).

Words formed from -core

  • core ()

Questions about -core

What does -core mean?
-core means denoting a genre of music, especially one influenced by hardcore music.
What part of speech is -core?
-core is a suffix.

Words near -core in the dictionary

  1. -con
  2. -conazole
  3. -cont-
  4. -conta-
  5. -copter
  6. -core
  7. -corn
  8. -cort
  9. -cort-
  10. -cos-
  11. -cosa-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -core (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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