You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for May 25.
Wine Day
Today’s word is genre, spelled g-e-n-r-e.
genre /ˈʒɒnrə $ ˈʒɑːnrə/ ●○○ noun [countable] formal
a particular type of art, writing, music etc, which has certain features that all examples of this type share
What genre does the book fall into - comedy or tragedy?
Science fiction as a genre is relatively new.
This book is a classic of the mystery genre.
Younger audiences are becoming increasingly interested in bands of this musical grab-bag genre, and not only as a retro fad.
Italian filmmakers made their own versions of the classic Hollywood genres - the western, the gangster film, the musical.
In genre fiction there is an implied contract between writer and reader that justice of a kind will be exacted; "good" may not always triumph over "evil," but the distinction between the two must be honored.
— Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books, 14 Aug. 2003
With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.
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