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noun

Genre n.

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."

(Fine Arts) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

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Etymology of 'Genre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... created in his own country an art which was original, and consequently he has his share in the creation of a new art. Besides this he did yet more: he begot a whole school in a foreign country, the English school—Reynolds, Lawrence, Gainsborough, and I would add to them nearly all the genre painters who are faithful to the English tradition, and the most powerful landscape painters issue directly from Van Dyck, and indirectly from Rubens through Van Dyck. These are high claims. And so posterity, always just in its instincts, gives Van ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

... present to the philosophy of the past, and foresees the triumph of the latter. 'Avant que le dix-neuvieme siecle s'acheve, la vieille philosophie scolastique aura repris sa place dans la juste admiration du monde. Il lui faudra pourtant bien du temps pour guerir les maux de tout genre, causes par son indigne rivale; et pendant de longues annees encore, ce nom de philosophie, le plus grand de la langue humaine apres celui de religion, sera suspect aux ames qui se souviendront de la science impie et materialiste de Locke, de Condillac ou d'Helvetius. L'heure ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... he was familiar with the works of the few authors in the genre who preceeded him. A Columbus of Space was dedicated "to the readers of Jules ...

— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss

... would thus be automatically excluded from any religion. He, therefore, returned the volume to the Hebrew with the remark that as an adult he found the stories of De Maupassant and Balzac more interesting, even though they belonged to the same genre. ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... and more or less remained one for life; but the greatest of his time accepted him at once, and laughed and wept, and loved him for his obvious faults as well as for his qualities. Tous les genres sont bons, hormis le genre ennuyeux! And Barty was so delightfully ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

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