Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.

A category of a certain type of writing, such as horror, romance, mystery, science fiction, and so forth.

A category of films lumped together based on subject matter, theme or tone. Film genres include action, drama, comedy, horror, noir, musical, mystery, western, thriller, documentary, or science fiction. Many genres then have sub-genres, such as dark comedy, teen comedy, romantic drama, historical drama, sci-fi thriller, or sci-fi horror.

type or kind of musical work (e.g. kiba, opera, quartet, rap)

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

a painting representing everyday life

Genre painting is the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities. It achieved its greatest popularity in seventeenth century Holland with the works of Jan Steen and Jan Vermeer.The term genre is also used for the various categories of subject matter in the traditional academic hierarchy, in descending order of importance: history, megalography, mythology, religion, portraiture, genre (see the first sense above), landscape, still-life and vernacular.

French for, "type", refers to paintings that depict scenes of everyday life without any attempt at idealization. The Dutch productions of peasant and tavern scenes are the most prevalent.

Most games fall conveniently into a specific type or genre of game.

a form or type of something

a text-type specified by identifying a common structure of functional units (obligatory and optional) that is repeated again and again from text to text

a type of book

a brand that the audience recognizes

a broad band containing many variations upon a theme

A way of categorising different types of moving image texts. As it has a particular usage in Film Studies it can often sound clumsy or inappropriate when applied to other media forms, like video or television. It is more common to talk of television formats, like the gameshow or the chatshow, for example. Genres are typically studied via reference to narratives, iconography, themes, and characters which crop up relatively predictably within individual examples of a particular genre. However, it is important to bear in mind the role of the audience when studying genre. It is commonly agreed that audiences enjoy the repetition of what is familiar in a genre, but also expect to see something new.

a group of acts unified by a constellation of forms that recurs in each of its members

a patterning of communication created by a combination of the individual (cognitive), social, and technical forces implicit in a recurring communicative situation

a socially agreed upon and recognized form of communication that a group of people has developed over time to communicate more effectively and efficiently with one another

a medium in which to conduct an obsession

a semiotic code within which we are 'positioned' as 'ideal readers' through the use of particular 'modes of address'

sign system (in the sense of classical semiotics) delimited by a collection of conventions for using a medium. For example, the graphical conventions of familiar GUIs constitute a genre within the medium of computer displays.

a set of stories related by particular characteristics or conventions

a type of story, like action, love, thriller, detective, etc

An artwork in skeletal outline, elaborated through a series of derived artworks that all share a set of common elements and conventions.