- a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
- Fine Arts.
- paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
- a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
- genus; kind; sort; style.
- of or relating to genre.
- of or relating to a distinctive literary type.
- kind, category, or sort, esp of literary or artistic work
- (as modifier)
- a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
