subgenre

See also: sub-genre

English

Alternative forms

• sub-genre

Etymology

From sub- +‎ genre.

Noun

subgenre (plural subgenres)

1. One of several categories within a particular genre.
   • 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.

Translations

category within a particular genre

• Catalan: subgènere m
• Dutch: subgenre (nl)
• Estonian: alaliik
• French: sous-genre (fr) m
• Galician: subxénero m
• Georgian: ქვეჟანრი (kvežanri)
• German: Untergenre n, Subgenre n
• Hungarian: alműfaj
• Irish: fosheánra m
• Italian: sottogenere (it) m
• Polish: podgatunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: subgénero (pt) m
• Russian: поджа́нр (ru) m (podžánr)
• Spanish: subgénero m
• Swedish: subgenre (sv) c

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