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# genre

noun

«genre» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

89 uses in 47 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 89 of 89. By the class of the article: country 26, city 10, company 4, agglomeration 3. Most often with: «music», «musical», «such», «popular», «other».

### Examples

- Classical music in Bangladesh is represented by the common forms of devotional music across the Indian subcontinent, such as the Hindustani classical music genre dhrupad and khayal. — [Bangladesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), sentence 477 («wiki:Bangladesh:477»)
- Fostering a wide range of genres from classical to electronic, jazz, folk and opera, Bologna offers its citizens a musical vitality that deeply infiltrates the city's professional, academic, social and cultural facets." — [Bologna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna), sentence 223 («wiki:Bologna:223»)
- Imigani, indirimbo, amazina and ivyivugo are literary genres in Burundi. — [Burundi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), sentence 386 («wiki:Burundi:386»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Bangladesh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bologna»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Burundi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.