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Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.

genre (plural genres)

  1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
    The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
    This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
    The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
    • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
      One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

kind; type; sort

genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)

  1. To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.

Borrowed from French genre.

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

  1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Borrowed from French genre. Doublet of gender and genus.

genre n (plural genres, no diminutive)

  1. kind, type, genre

Borrowed from French genre.

genre

  1. genre

From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Noun sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.[1]

genre m (plural genres)

  1. kind
    le genre humain
    the human race
  2. style, look, type
    le genre dramatique
    the dramatic genre
    Il essaie de se donner un genre.
    He tries to give himself a look.
    C’est quel genre de mec ?
    What kind of guy is he?
    Tu écoutes quel genre de musique ?
    What kind of music do you listen to?
  3. genre
  4. (grammar) gender (of nouns)
    Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.
    French words are either of masculine or feminine gender.
  5. (grammar) voice (of verbs)
    • 1742, Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page 52:
      Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : Le Genre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinq Genres de Verbes Personnels: l'Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.
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  6. gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc.)
    Mon genre est non-binaire.
    My gender is non-binary.
  7. (biology) genus
    Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.
    Any living or extinct species has a genus, according to the binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl von Linné.
  8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

genre (colloquial)

  1. like, kind of (approximation, softener, filler in informal speech)
    Y avait genre 200 personnes à la fête.
    There were like 200 people at the party.
    C’est genre pas si grave.
    It’s kind of not that serious.
    Je suis genre rarement énervé.
    I'm like rarely annoyed.
    C’était, genre… trop gênant.
    It was, like… super awkward.
  2. like (introducing a quotation, reaction, or imitation)
    Elle était genre: « Occupe-toi de tes affaires ».
    She was like: “Mind your own business.”
    J’étais genre: « Quoi ?! ».
    I was like: “What?!”
  3. for example, such as
    On va faire des activités, genre ciné, bowling, resto.
    We’ll do activities like movies, bowling, restaurants.

In these senses, genre functions as an adverbial discourse marker, very frequent in spoken French (especially among younger speakers). It is rare in formal writing, though it may appear in texting and online chats.

genre

  1. (colloquial) expresses disbelief, irony or dismissal; used ironically (≈ yeah right, as if, no way)
    — Il a tout compris à la réunion. — Genre !
    — He understood everything at the meeting. — Yeah right!
    Genre, tu le connais vraiment ?
    No way, you actually know him?
    — Je reviens, dit-elle. — Genre…
    — I’ll be back, she said. — As if…
  1. ^ “genre”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse

From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere.

genre m (plural genres)

  1. (grammar, etc.) gender

Borrowed from French genre.

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

  1. alternative spelling of sjanger

Borrowed from French genre.

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

  1. alternative spelling of sjanger

Borrowed from French genre.

genre c

  1. a genre