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genre

/zhahn-ruh; French zhahn-ruh/US // ˈʒɑn rə; French ˈʒɑ̃ rə //UK // (ˈʒɑːnrə) //

体裁,类型,流派,体裁类

Related Words

category类别,种类,类型,类style风格,样式fashion时尚,时尚界,时尚界的brand品牌,牌子,烙印character特征kind种类,一种,种,样sort分类,种类,排序,分级school学校,校,学校,塾group组,集团,群体,群classification分类,分级,分类法,分类方法class类,类别,阶级,种类genus属,类属,属类,属相species品种

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gen·res [zhahn-ruhz; French zhahn-ruh]. /ˈʒɑn rəz; French ˈʒɑ̃ rə/.

    • : a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
    • : Fine Arts. paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
    • : genus; kind; sort; style.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Fine Arts. of or relating to genre.
    • : of or relating to a distinctive literary type.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountype
Forms: genres
Synonyms
brand品牌,牌子,烙印category类别,种类,类型,类character特征fashion时尚,时尚界,时尚界的kind种类,一种,种,样style风格,样式class类,类别,阶级,种类classification分类,分级,分类法,分类方法genus属,类属,属类,属相group组,集团,群体,群school学校,校,学校,塾sort分类,种类,排序,分级species品种

Examples

  • In recent years, “lo-fi chill” and other forms of “focus music” have become so popular that there are now multiple YouTube channels devoted to the genre.

  • Throughout the process, Thio worked with lo-fi producers to curate bass lines, drum lines, and background ambience that exemplify the genre and sound good.

  • Stell is a rapidly rising artist in the electronic and dance scene, though his songs don’t fit neatly in the genre.

  • Studios with a very focused portfolio around a specific genre — Viker’s core focus is social casino-type games — may benefit from advertisers who shift to more broad-based, contextual targeting, he added.

  • The genre-bender is well-cast and suspenseful, and the cliffhanger ending suggests there’s more to come.

  • People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

  • A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.

  • I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

  • You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

  • Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.

  • Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.

  • They live in Stockholm, where she paints portraits and genre subjects.

  • Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.

  • Unfortunately, the art of genre painting did not exist in those days, and that of engraving was in its infancy.

  • Tout le monde sait que l'Allemagne possede en ce genre des trsors qui ont t jusqu'ici comme enfouis pour la France.

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