genre
1. a kind of literary or artistic work (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: kind, sort, form, variety 2. a style of expressing yourself in writing • Syn: writing style, literary genre • Hypernyms: expressive style, style • Hyponyms: drama, prose, form, poetry, poesy, verse 3. an expressive style of music • Syn: music genre, musical genre, musical style • Members of this Topic: crossover • Hypernyms: expressive style, style, music • Hyponyms: black music, African-American music, classical music, classical, serious music, religious music, church music, marching music, march, popular music, popular music genre 4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique • Hypernyms: art, fine art • Hyponyms: abstractionism, abstract art, chinoiserie, folk art, genre painting, landscape, landscape painting, magic realism, modernism, outsider art, self-taught art, self-taught art, naive art, primitive art, pointillism, postmodernism, primitivism, synthetism
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