Hypernyms for "genre"
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Hypernyms
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abstract art
abstractionism
African-American music
black music
chinoiserie
church music
classical
classical music
drama
folk art
form
genre painting
landscape
landscape painting
magic realism
march
marching music
modernism
naive art
outsider art
poesy
poetry
pointillism
popular music
popular music genre
postmodernism
primitive art
primitivism
prose
religious music
self-taught art
serious music
synthetism
vernacular art
verse
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.