# genre

Pronunciation: US say "ZHAHN-ruh" /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/; UK say "ZHON-ruh" /ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/

## Noun

1. A category or class of artistic work (especially literature, film, or music) defined by shared style, form, or subject matter.
   - Simple: A type or style of book, movie, or music that shares common features.
   - _Science fiction is the genre she returns to whenever she wants to imagine other worlds._
   - _Critics struggled to fit the album into any single genre._

## Verb

2. To assign a creative work to a category, or to shape it so that it fits a particular one.
   - Simple: To put a creative work into a type or style, or to make it match one.
   - _In her thesis, she argues that early jazz recordings were genred by record companies more than by the musicians themselves._
   - _A story that is hard to genre can be tougher to sell, since agents want to know which shelf it belongs on._

## Origin

This is a French word that English took over as is. In French it continues Old French gen(d)re, a borrowing of the Latin genere. Gender and genus are doublets of it.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/genre (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).