Usually means: Category defined by style, content.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word genre:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. genre: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. genre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. genre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. genre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. genre: Vocabulary.com
  6. Genre, genre: Wordnik
  7. genre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. genre: Wiktionary
  9. genre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. genre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. genre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. genre: Dictionary.com
  13. genre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. genre: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Genre (animated film), Genre (disambiguation), Genre (magazine), Genre (music), Genre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Genre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. genre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. genre: Rhymezone
  19. Genre (nt), genre, genre (het), genre (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. genre: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. genre: Free Dictionary
  22. genre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. genre: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. genre: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. genre: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. genre: Global Glossary
  2. Genre: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  4. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  5. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  6. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  9. Genre: art glossary
  10. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  11. GENRE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. genre: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Genre: Game Dictionary
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. genre: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. genre: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See genres as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
verb:  To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.

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