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gen·re
 (zhän  r  )
KEY
NOUN:
- A type or class:
"Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent"
(Helen Kitchen).
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- A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content:
"his six String Quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's"
(Time).
- A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus
, gener-; see gen- in Indo-European roots
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