different between general vs genre

English

Alternative forms

• generall (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin gener?lis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -?lis (“-al”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d???n??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???n???l/
• Hyphenation: gene?ral, gen?er?al

Adjective

general (comparative more general, superlative most general)

1. Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. [from 13th c.]
2. (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. [from 14th c.]
3. Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.]
4. Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. [from 14th c.]
5. Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. [from 16th c.]
6. Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. [from 16th c.]

Synonyms

• (involving every part or member): broad, generic; see also Thesaurus:generic
• (prevalent or widespread): typical; see also Thesaurus:common

Antonyms

• (involving every part or member): particular, specific; see also Thesaurus:specific
• (prevalent or widespread): abnormal, uncommon

Derived terms

Related terms

• universal
• common

Translations

Noun

general (countable and uncountable, plural generals)

1. (now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality. [from 16th c.]

2. (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]
3. A great strategist or tactician. [from 16th c.]

4. (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits. [from 16th c.]
5. (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral. [16th-18th c.]
6. (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid with no specific duties. [from 19th c.]
7. (countable) A general anesthetic.
8. (uncountable) General anesthesia.
9. (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.

Usage notes

When used as a title, it is always capitalized.

Example: General John Doe.

The rank corresponds to pay grade O-10. Abbreviations: GEN.

Coordinate terms

• (insurance industry): health, life, pensions

Translations

See also

• hetman

Verb

general (third-person singular simple present generals, present participle generalling or generaling, simple past and past participle generalled or generaled)

1. To lead (soldiers) as a general.

Adverb

general (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.

Anagrams

• enlarge, gleaner, reangle

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??.n???al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /d??e.ne??al/

Adjective

general (masculine and feminine plural generals)

1. general

Noun

general m (plural generals, feminine generala)

1. (military) general

Derived terms

Further reading

• “general” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “general” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “general” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “general” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

general c (singular definite generalen, plural indefinite generaler)

1. general

Inflection

Ladin

Adjective

general m (feminine singular generala, masculine plural generai, feminine plural generales)

1. general

Middle English

Alternative forms

• generall, generale

Etymology

From a mixture of Anglo-Norman general, Middle French general, and Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??n??ra?l/, /?d??n?ral/

Adjective

general

1. universal, complete
2. comprehensive, wide-ranging
3. general, widely useable or applicable
4. common, widely present

Descendants

• English: general
• Scots: general

References

• “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

Noun

general (plural generals)

1. genus, class, group

References

• “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generaler, definite plural generalene)

1. (military) a general

Derived terms

• generalguvernør

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generalar, definite plural generalane)

1. (military) a general

Derived terms

• generalguvernør

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gener?lis.

Noun

general m (oblique plural generaus or generax or generals, nominative singular generaus or generax or generals, nominative plural general)

1. (military) general

Adjective

general m (oblique and nominative feminine singular generale)

1. general (not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category)

Declension

Descendants

• ? English: general
• French: général

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gener?lis. See also geral, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.ne??a??/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.n???a?/
• Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral

Noun

general m (plural generais, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)

1. (military) general

Descendants

• ? Tetum: jenerál

Further reading

• “general” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French général, from Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??e.ne?ral/

Noun

general m (plural generali)

1. general

Declension

Adjective

general m or n (feminine singular general?, masculine plural generali, feminine and neuter plural generale)

1. general

Declension

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German General, from Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?en?ra?l/
• Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral

Noun

genèr?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (military) general

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From German General, from Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?rá?l/

Noun

gener?l m anim (female equivalent gener?lica or gener?lka)

1. (military) general

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xene??al/, [xe.ne??al]

Adjective

general (plural generales)

1. general

Derived terms

Noun

general m (plural generales, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)

1. (military) general

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: heneral
• ? Tagalog: heneral

Further reading

• “general” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From German General, from Old French general, from Latin gener?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?n(?)?r??l/

Noun

general c

1. a general; a military title
2. an Air Chief Marshal

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: kenraali

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/, /(d)??n.??/
• (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA^(key): /d???n?/

Noun

genre (plural genres)

1. 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.

   The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)

     One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Synonyms

• kind
• type
• class
• See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

Related terms

• genre fiction
• genre film
• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

Translations

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen

Danish

Etymology

From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??????]

Noun

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.r?/
• Hyphenation: gen?re

Noun

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

Anagrams

• enger, neger, regen

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??enre/, [??e?nre?]
• Rhymes: -enre
• Syllabification: gen?re

Noun

genre

1. genre

Declension

Synonyms

• lajityyppi

French

Etymology

From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. kind

2. style

3. (grammar) gender (of nouns)

4. (grammar) voice (of verbs)
5. 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)

6. (biology) genus

7. look, type

8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

Derived terms

• BCBG, bon chic bon genre
• cisgenre, transgenre
• en tous genres
• en tout genre
• faire genre
• genre humain
• unique en son genre

Descendants

• ? English: genre
• ? Russian: ???? (žanr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (janr)

Particle

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement enervé.

Further reading

• “genre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.

Anagrams

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

Norman

Etymology

From Latin genus, generis, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os (compare Ancient Greek ????? (génos)).

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French genre

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹?a??r/
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

genre c

1. a genre

Declension

Anagrams

• gener, green, neger