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minigenre

minigenre noun: a small, specialist genre.

Noun

minigenre (plural minigenres)

  1. A small, specialist genre.
    • All of them could be called candidate lit, a publishing minigenre that includes runaway best sellers (“The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois) and unqualified duds (“Between Worlds,” a memoir by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico).2007 February 22, Julie Bosman, “Time to Throw Their Books Into the Ring”, in New York Times

Forms of minigenre

pluralminigenres

Origin of minigenre

From mini- + genre.

Questions about minigenre

What does minigenre mean?
Minigenre means a small, specialist genre.
What part of speech is minigenre?
Minigenre is a noun.
What is the plural of minigenre?
The plural of minigenre is minigenres.

Words near minigenre in the dictionary

  1. minigene
  2. minigenes
  3. minigenome
  4. minigenomes
  5. minigenomic
  6. minigenre
  7. minigenres
  8. minigolf
  9. minigolfer
  10. minigolfers
  11. minigolfing

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