Definition of Genre

a particular type of music, writing, film, or art

Examples of Genre in a sentence

Rock was his favorite genre of music, but he also had a secret love for country.  🔊

Though he did not normally enjoy movies in the horror genre, he found the trailer quite compelling.  🔊

Science fiction is an interesting genre that melds real-life science with fantasy elements.  🔊

He quite enjoyed this painter’s genre, which seemed to closely resemble reality.  🔊

Fantasy was not his favorite genre, but he quite enjoyed reading from this new author.  🔊

A romantic comedy is a sort of hybrid genre between comedy and romance.  🔊

Bluegrass is a much more specific genre than country.  🔊

There are many subcategories of rock, which makes it easy to like one genre and not another.  🔊

The romantic genre of books is known for flowery writing.  🔊

He had learned to paint in a more realistic genre, but still enjoyed the more cartoonish style.  🔊

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