genre
/ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə//ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
genre noun: a kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Noun
genre (plural genres)
Verb
genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)
- To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
genre meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
genre in Hindi
- kind; type; sort
- विधा vidhā
genre in Marathi
- जीनरिंग
genre in Urdu
- a genre
- صنف sinf
genre in Bengali
- রীতি, ধারা, ধরন, প্রকার, রকম, উপায়
More languagesFewer languages
- genre in Malayalam
- ജോൺറ jōṇṟa
- genre in Kannada
- ಬಗೆ, ಶೈಲಿ, ರೂಪ, ಜಾತಿ
- genre in Punjabi
- ਵਿਧਾ
- genre in Gujarati
- શૈલી śailī
- genre in Assamese
- ধৰণ dhoron
- genre in Nepali
- विधा, विधाको
- genre in Arabic
- نَوْع فَنِّيّ nawʕ fanniyy, نَوْع أَدَبِيّ nawʕ ʔadabiyy, نَوْع nawʕ
- genre in Malay
- genre
- genre in Persian
- ژانر žânr
- genre in Thai
- ประเภท bprà-pêet, แนว nɛɛo
Examples of genre in a sentence
- The grunge genre was the love child of punk and metal.
- I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
- He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
Synonyms of genre
Forms of genre
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | genres |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | genres |
| present participle | genring |
| present participle | genreing |
| past participle | genred |
| past | genred |
Origin of genre
Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Words formed from genre
Phrases with genre
Questions about genre
- What does genre mean?
- Genre means a kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
- What is genre in Hindi?
- Genre in Hindi is विधा (vidhā). See Genre meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is genre?
- Genre can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce genre?
- Genre is pronounced /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/ (US).
- What is the plural of genre?
- The plural of genre is genres.
Words near genre in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: genre (page history and authors); genre (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); صنف (Urdu) (page history and authors); genre (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ജോൺറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); genre (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); genre (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); શૈલી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ধৰণ (Assamese) (page history and authors); genre (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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