SUBGENRE

Meaning of SUBGENRE in English

/sub"zhahn'reuh, -zhahonn'rddeu/ , n.

a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.

[ SUB- + GENRE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

YOMIHON — ((Japanese: books for reading)) a subgenre of gesaku, a type of popular Japanese literature of the Tokugawa, or Edo, period …
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TOPOGRAPHICAL POETRY — verse genre characterized by the description of a particular landscape. A subgenre, the prospect poem, details the view from a …
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MONOGATARI — (Japanese: tale or narrative) Japanese works of fiction, especially those written from the Heian to the Muromachi periods (7941573). Monogatari …
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GENTEEL COMEDY — early 18th-century subgenre of the comedy of manners that reflected the behaviour of the British upper class. Contrasted with Restoration …
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FASHIONABLE NOVEL — early 19th-century subgenre of the comedy of manners portraying the English upper class, usually by members of that class. One …
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DANCE SUITE — musical arrangement consisting of related dance movements. See suite. Types of dance The division of dance into types can be …
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CYBERPUNK — a science-fiction subgenre characterized by countercultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanized, high-tech future. The word cyberpunk was coined by writer …
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STERLING, BRUCE — born April 14, 1954, Brownsville, Texas, U.S. American author of science fiction who in the mid-1980s emerged as a proponent …
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MOODY BLUES, THE — British rock band formed in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, in 1964 and credited as the pioneer of a subgenre, now …
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METALLICA — influential American heavy metal band that, along with Slayer and Anthrax, created the subgenre of speed metal in the early …
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VARIETY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bewildering variety/array/range ▪ a bewildering variety of choices a combination/variety/number of factors ▪ A …
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NOVEL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a spy story/novel/movie etc ▪ John Le Carré is famous for writing spy stories. …
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INFINITE — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an infinite/endless variety ▪ There is a seemingly infinite variety of beers to choose from. …
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EXAMPLE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a concrete example ▪ I can illustrate this point with a concrete example. an obvious …
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CLASSIC — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a classic movie (= an old movie that is very good ) ▪ a …
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ROGUE — < games > [Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix …
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FOOL FILE — < jargon > A term found on Usenet for a notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid …
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FILK — /filk/ [SF fandom, where a typo for "folk" was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk song with …
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CYBERPUNK — /si:'ber-puhnk/ (Originally coined by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois) A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by …
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ASCII ART — < graphics > (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly …
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ROGUE — 1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. …
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FOOL FILE — [Usenet] A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever. An entire subgenre of sig block …
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FILK
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