how to pronounce genre

/ˈʒɑːnɹə/

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genre is pronounced in two syllables

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1.

ɑː

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An example use of genre in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… is a whole genre now did you start it I …”

meanings of genre

noun:

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

genre frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word genre occurs in english on average 35.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics genre can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that genre can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) leisure and entertainment;