Dictionary entry

Genre

Pronunciation: /ˈ(d)ʒɒnrə/

Pronunciation

/ˈ(d)ʒɒnrə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) အနုပညာ အမျိုးအစား

Definition

genre / 'ʒa:nrǝ / n ပန္းခ်ီ၊ ပန္းပု၊ စာေပ စသည္ အႏုပညာရပ္တို႔၏ အမ်ဳိးအစား။ The novel and short story belong to different literary genres. ❏ genre painting n [C,U] ေန႔စဥ္လူမႈဘဝ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ ပန္းခ်ီကား။ ယင္းေရးနည္းေရးဟန္။

Examples

  1. The novel did not really exist as a genre before the 17th century.
  2. There’s a whole genre of films about city-dwellers lost in the wilderness.
  3. The genre of this text is an expository essay about the virtue of cats.