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genre
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- kind, type, genre
Anagrams
- enger, neger, regen
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??enre/, [??e?nre?]
- Rhymes: -enre
- Syllabification: gen?re
Noun
genre
- 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)
- kind
- style
- (grammar) gender (of nouns)
- (grammar) voice (of verbs)
- 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)
- (biology) genus
- look, type
- (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
- (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)
- (grammar, etc.) gender
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French genre
Noun
genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)
- 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)
- 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
- a genre
Declension
Anagrams
- gener, green, neger
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classification
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French classification
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)
- The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
Derived terms
- classification scheme
- classification yard
Related terms
- class
- classic
- classify
- category
- categorize
- segment
Translations
Further reading
- classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- classification at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
classe +? -ification
Pronunciation
Noun
classification f (plural classifications)
- classification
Further reading
- “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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