Akademik

gen|re

gen|re «zhahn ruh», noun.

1. kind, sort, or style, especially in art or literature: »The novel and the drama are two literary genres.
SYNONYM(S): class.

2. = genre painting. (Cf. ↑genre painting)

╂genre, learned borrowing from Latin genus, -eris kind; see etym. under genus (Cf. ↑genus). See etym. of doublet gender[< Old French . (Cf. ↑gender)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.