English noun: genre |
| 1. | genre (cognition) a kind of literary or artistic work |
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| Broader (hypernym) | form, kind, sort, variety |
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| 2. | genre (communication) a style of expressing yourself in writing |
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| Synonyms | literary genre, writing style |
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| Broader (hypernym) | expressive style, style |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | drama, form, poesy, poetry, prose, verse |
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| 3. | genre (communication) an expressive style of music |
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| Synonyms | music genre, musical genre, musical style |
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| Broader (hypernym) | expressive style, music, style |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | African-American music, black music, church music, classical, classical music, march, marching music, popular music, popular music genre, religious music, serious music |
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| Domain category members | crossover |
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| 4. | genre (artifact) a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique |
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| Broader (hypernym) | art, fine art |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | abstract art, abstractionism, chinoiserie, folk art, genre painting, landscape, landscape painting, magic realism, modernism, naive art, outsider art, pointillism, postmodernism, primitive art, primitivism, self-taught art, synthetism, vernacular art |
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