1. A type or class: "emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent” ( Helen kitchen).
2. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: "his six string quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's” ( time).
3. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

1. kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.
2. A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

1. genus; kind; sort; style.
2. in painting, specifically, a representation of some phase of common life, as a domestic interior, a rural or village scene, etc.

1. a kind of literary or artistic work
2. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
3. a style of expressing yourself in writing
4. an expressive style of music