noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Familiarity with many different styles and genres is now encouraged.
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Everyone was in such different genres of music.
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The result is a range of different genres of literary criticism and literary theory, to some extent distinguished by register.
literary
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By the 1850s the tradition had declined, so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre .
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Evidence suggests that some teachers are least happy about teaching poetry to this age group, in comparison with the other main literary genres .
musical
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A programme of jazz and classical music, showing the saxophone as an instrument of both musical genres .
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Younger audiences are becoming increasingly interested in bands of this musical grab-bag genre , and not only as a retro fad.
new
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It was a great way to be eased into a new genre .
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And the new genre of populist politicians will have to deliver far more than free elections.
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Dark Inheritance is Elaine Feinstein's first venture into a new genre: the literary thriller.
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The level of difficulty is high, especially for those new to the genre .
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Writing about slum life for middle- and upper-class consumption was not a new genre in the 1880s.
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Could this be the birth of a new genre ?
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Applied wholesale to the arts, it added a new genre to the decade.
other
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The novel is not merely one genre among other genres.
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It gets on poorly with other genres .
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Pindar wrote his elaborate choral odes also in many other genres , but we have only fragments of these.
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Evidence suggests that some teachers are least happy about teaching poetry to this age group, in comparison with the other main literary genres .
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For such a theory has at its heart an object of study completely different to that which theory treats in other genres .
particular
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The first concerns the dominant devices in a particular genre and/or period.
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Likewise, some students prefer this writing approach because they can lean on the form and structure of a particular genre .
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Happy the students who were inspired to independent judgements by this shrewd praise of a master of his particular genre .
■ VERB
become
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But it became my genre because of John Woo.
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Shortly, thereafter, sentimentalism became prominent in other genres .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Italian filmmakers made their own versions of the classic Hollywood genres - the western, the gangster film, the musical.
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Science fiction as a genre is relatively new.
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This movie is much better than others of the horror genre .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the eighteenth century the first modern novelists recognized that these genres could be used to tell a story.
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The genre is wider and more experimental and now has the element of pastiche.
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The comedia lacrimosa is a minor genre .
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The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.
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The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.
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Younger audiences are becoming increasingly interested in bands of this musical grab-bag genre , and not only as a retro fad.