Synonyms for genre
ˈʒɑn rə; Fr. ˈʒɑ̃ rəgenre

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1. genrenoun

   Synonyms:
   kind, class, type

2. genrenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   class, type, kind

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.9 / 37 votes

1. genrenoun

   a kind of literary or artistic work

   Synonyms:
   music genre, writing style, musical style, literary genre, musical genre

2. writing style, literary genre, genrenoun

   a style of expressing yourself in writing

   Synonyms:
   music genre, writing style, musical style, literary genre, musical genre

3. music genre, musical genre, genre, musical stylenoun

   an expressive style of music

   Synonyms:
   music genre, writing style, musical style, literary genre, musical genre

4. genrenoun

   a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

   Synonyms:
   music genre, writing style, musical style, literary genre, musical genre

Matched Categories

1. • Art
   • Expressive Style
   • Kind
   • Music

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1. List of paraphrases for "genre":

   genus, kind, gender, genera, type, sort

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1. Lil Jon:

   Hip hop is making money. It's one of the top-grossing fields of music, hip-hop culture has influenced and continues to influence the entire world, right ? No matter what genre of music people do, they dress and look like hip-hop artists and have swag like us.

2. Attorney General Bill Barr:

   I accept that there is some preliminary activity that suggests that they might try again, it wouldn't surprise me if Russia tries something again of the same general genre before.

3. Tony Visconti:

   When he put out albums like Heroes and Low, no one was doing anything like that, and then he gave birth to the New Romantic scene. He's a genre-breaker, and I can't wait for the ? imitation albums to start coming out.

4. Roni Loren:

   Growing up, we had that image of cheesy novels you pick up at the grocery store, and people have held on to that idea seeing the popularity of' Bridgerton' legitimizes the genre to some people. It gives people permission to start checking out things in the romance novel section.

5. Del Toro:

   I made it a point to make every man in the movie useless. Normally in gothic romance you end with (the male hero) carrying the girl without a shirt and rescuing her from imminent danger, i wanted to sort of actualize the genre a little bit and make the female roles the central roles.