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genre

noun
/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/US/ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/UK/ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.

  1. derived from genus
  2. derived from gendre

Definitions

  1. A kind

    A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

    • The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
    • This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
    • The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

  2. To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at genre. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at genre. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at genre

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA