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What is meant by genre?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 11/2/2022

The word "genre" is basically synonymous with "catagory" -- e.g., That painter works in the genre of seascapes. His sister works in the still life genre. Even more familiar would be with reference to movies -- the Horror genre, the sci-fi genre, etc.

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