genre

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gen=re

CIDE DICTIONARY

genre, n. [F. See Gender.].

•  Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.

  "French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born."

  "A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

genre, n.
1 a kind or style, esp. of art or literature (e.g. novel, drama, satire).
2 (in full genre painting) the painting of scenes from ordinary life.

Etymology

F, = a kind (as GENDER)

THESAURUS

genre

Platonic form, Platonic idea, aesthetic form, archetype, art form, blood, brand, breed, build, cast, category, character, clan, class, color, configuration, conformation, cut, denomination, description, designation, fashion, feather, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, frame, genus, grain, ilk, impression, inner form, kidney, kin, kind, label, layout, line, lines, lot, make, makeup, manner, mark, matrix, modality, mode, model, mold, movement, nature, number, pattern, pencil, persuasion, phylum, prototype, race, school, set, shape, significant form, sort, species, stamp, strain, stripe, structure, style, the grand style, the like of, the likes of, tribe, turn, type, variety

ROGET THESAURUS

genre

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.