This question pertains to a question in my daughters Columbus story in reference to his sails and discoverys
2006-10-04 11:48:55 · 11 answers · asked by shirley c 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It's from French and it means category or classification. For example, jazz, classical, and rock are examples of different musical genres.
2006-10-04 11:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by ConcernedCitizen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genre, when used in a sentence like, "the book's genre" typically means type, style or category.
2016-03-14 02:01:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a group of something. Probably refering to either a the sailing genre or discovery genre.
2006-10-04 11:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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This question pertains to a question in my daughters Columbus story in reference to his sails and discoverys
2015-08-14 16:44:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genre means like a group of anything put together by their similar qualities.
2006-10-04 11:54:41 · answer #5 · answered by Amy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Genre is a group or category. Like music genres(country, rock, classical) or books/movies(fiction, non-fiction, adventure, action, etc)
2016-03-27 00:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type or group. For example, a genre of fiction is mysteries.
2006-10-04 11:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by freedomnow1950 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gen‧re /ˈʒɑnrə; Fr. ˈʒɑ̃rə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[zhahn-ruh; Fr. zhahn-ruh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -res /-rəz; Fr. -rə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[-ruhz; Fr. -ruh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, adjective
–noun
1.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.
2.Fine Arts.
a.paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
b.a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
3.genus; kind; sort; style.
–adjective
4.Fine Arts. of or pertaining to genre.
5.of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type.
2006-10-04 11:52:22 · answer #8 · answered by lollipoppett2005 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a genre might be a type of people in this case
2006-10-04 11:53:18 · answer #9 · answered by Mary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the genre of a story means like is it horror, fiction, romance.
Just the type of story it is..how it's classifyed.
2006-10-04 11:50:40 · answer #10 · answered by C M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋