1770, "particular style of art," a French word in English (nativized from c. 1840), from French genre "kind, sort, style" (see gender (n.)). Used especially in French for "independent style." In painting, as an adjective, "depicting scenes of ordinary life" (a domestic interior or village scene, as compared to landscape, historical, etc.) from 1849.
中文解释
1. genus => gender, genre.2. gender <===> genre.
实用例句
1. She emerges as a full, three-dimensional character in a way that few horror genre heroines ever do.
