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sub-genre

sub-genre is the alternative form of subgenre.

Meaning of subgenre

Noun

subgenre (plural subgenres)

  1. One of several categories within a particular genre.
    • You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2017

Forms of sub-genre

pluralsub-genres

Questions about sub-genre

What is sub-genre the alternative form of?
Sub-genre is the alternative form of subgenre.

Words near sub-genre in the dictionary

  1. sub-extremal
  2. sub-floral
  3. sub-fusc
  4. sub-fuscs
  5. sub-Gaussian
  6. sub-genre
  7. sub-genres
  8. sub-gigahertz
  9. sub-governorate
  10. sub-governorates
  11. sub-group

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-genre (page history and authors); subgenre (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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