Akind; a stylistic category orsort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Thestill life has been a populargenre in painting since the 17th century.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
The computer gameHalf-Life redefined the first-person shootergenre.
2013, S. Alexander Reed,Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page38:
One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that thegenre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
“genre”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2 July 2023
1742,Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page52:
Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : LeGenre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinqGenres de Verbes Personnels: l'Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.
gender(identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc.)
In these senses,genre functions as an adverbial discourse marker, very frequent in spoken French (especially among younger speakers). It is rare in formal writing, though it may appear in texting and online chats.
